Schisò Castle
The Castello di Schisò di Giardini Naxos is located on a relief formed by a prehistoric lava flow. The castle was a military construction that controlled access to the bay of Giardini Naxos. The two cylindrical escarpment towers represent the oldest part of the building and date back to the late medieval era. The presence of the two towers are probably what remains of a quadrangular fortified military complex of the Angevin type with four circular towers connected to each other by high walls.
In 1500 the complex, following the pirate attacks, the castle was renovated. On this occasion the quadrangular tower with the lava corbels, the residential core and a plant for processing the sugar cane produced in the area were annexed to the building. The last construction phase dates back to the end of the 1800s, during which the facade overlooking the seafront was refined by a series of balconies according to a typology adopted for residential buildings.
In 2018 the Castle was acquired by the Park Archaeological of Naxos Taormina.
