I guess what do you think, all of you: “An article about Italy, for sure is about food or football”. I am sorry but not! Enough with gastronomy, art or fashion, we got bored. Then, the trend topic for this week is…paranormal! Indeed, even if it is not very well-known, Italy has a great number of sites related with ghosts, magic and curses.
We have
selected some of them just for you. A very personal top ten that hopefully will
provide you goosebumps and adrenaline for your next trip in Italy. Let’s start!
TURIN:
Turin is
the magical city par excellence and is believed to be the top corner of both
the triangle of white magic (with Prague and Lyon) and black magic (with London
and San Francisco). Several landmarks in the city has connections with magic
and esoterism so we just point out Statuto square, core of the “black” Turin
and its “white” counterpart, Castello Square.
Castello square: the white core.
Statuto square: the dark core.
DELLA ROTTA CASTLE, MONCALIERI (TURIN):
Very close
to Turin, this castle is very renowned for a massive paranormal activity. There
are too many tales for enlisting here but it’s enough notice that the night
between the 12th and the 13th allegedly you just can
observe a ghost parade nearby!
No phantoms...yet!
POVEGLIA
ISLAND, VENICE:
Placed into
the Venetian lagoon, the Poveglia Island is one of the most infamous places in
Italy. Over the centuries, the island served as leper hospital (end of XVIII
cen.) and asylum (1920’s) and that deeply affected its reputation. The
witnesses concerning apparitions, voices and laments are countless and the
local people carefully retain from approaching that place. Are you brave enough
for daring so much?
The interior of the structure. Nothing to add.
CA' DARIO, VENICE:
This enchanted
place, facing the Grand Canal, according to some sources, would deserve the
title of most cursed house in the world. No haunting, no phantoms but murders,
suicides, bankruptcies. Since the time of its construction, the end of XV
cent., it looks like the house has steady tried to rise against his
proprietors, the effective ones and even the potential ones. Give a look, but
please, do not show too much interest.
Don't stare at it, it can be fatal!
MONTEBELLO
CASTLE, TORRIANA (RIMINI):
Once upon a
time, a medieval lord had an albino daughter. Her mother tried to protect her,
by painting them black but the dye didn’t adhere. The hair turned in blue and
he child gained the nickname Azzurrina
(little blue). The 21st June, 1375, outside a violent storm,
Azzurrina was playing and suddenly she lost her ball in the castle cellar. She
went to take it and she didn’t appear anymore. Every year finishing with -0 or
-5, the night of summer solstice, you still can listen her laments.
The next level of fear, trust in me.
THE
ALCHEMICAL GATE, ROME:
“When in your home, black crows will give
birth to white doves, you will be called wise”, “the one able to burn with
water, he makes the ground sky and the sky, precious thing”. These are just
some of the carved sentences you can find on the frame of the Alchemical Gate,
inside the garden of Vittorio Emanuele II square. According to the legend, the
sentences would be linked with the myth of philosophical stone, able to turn
lead in gold and to provide the long-life elixir. I strongly recommend you to
bring a bloc notes with you.
Here it is, ready for unfold its secrets to you.
ST.EUSTACHIO
STREET, ROME:
3 Km far
from the Vittorio Emanuele II square, you can find an even stranger place. It is
such a short and wide street that folk uses to refer to it as a square. Allegedly,
once upon a time, an alchemist or a necromancer lived here and that left a trace
somehow. Indeed, despite being juxtaposed to one of the rowdiest sites in the
city, the Pantheon square, the so-called “Esoteric Square” is unusually quiet. If
that is not enough, there is a bar where you can taste one of the best coffee in
Rome.
A square? A street? Both!
LAKE AVERNUS and SIBILLA CUMANA CAVE, POZZUOLI (NAPLES):
In the surroundings
of Naples there is an area named Campi Flegrei that, since long ago has been
related with supernatural. Because of the deep volcanic activity, the Lake
Avernus (Without Birds) emitted poisonous gases that killed every bird daring to fly
over the lake. Not surprisingly, the ancient Greek believed there stayed the
gate of the Hell. Another very special spot, over there, is the place where,
millennia ago, the Sibyl, the Apollo priestess, provided obscure predictions. The
hell has never been so close.
As you can notice, no birds.
Someone is waiting for you at the end of the tunnel.
SAN SEVERO
CHAPEL, NAPLES:
A special
place in the already special city of Naples. Built by the genial prince of San
Severo, Raimondo di Sangro, the chapel is full of unique masterpieces. Statues
like the “Veiled Christ”, whose veil is so well manufactured that allegedly it was a
real veil, turned into marble by the alchemies of the prince. Otherwise, you
can be interested in the anatomical models: artificial or got by human being? The
secrets of the chapel are waiting for you.
These are just two of the peculiarity of the chapel
THE TOMBS OF
THE GIANTS, DORGALI (NU):
The island
of Sardinia is a unique place in Italy. Land with a very ancient history, it is
full of unique vestiges, some of them permeated by a mysterious aura. Among
them, undoubtedly the tombs of the giants stand out. They are ancient, massive,
megalithic graves that, allegedly, in ancestral times would have served as
funerary site for a race of giants who lived on the island. In Dorgali, for example,
you can find the grave of the giants S’Ena and Thomes. Whether legend or truth,
it is really charming!
Allegedly, giants were buried here.
I am pretty sure it is going to be a goosebumps trip!
Leo & Chiara
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