This is the castle we visited. This castle is being restored by the Italian Navy. At one point they had over 600 men living at the castle, now there are 47. The castle is now showing the original stone.

 School field day. Haley could be part of this class. This part of outside of the building has not been restored. ( located in the upper courtyard)

This is our Tour guide, a Naval officer who spoke English. He was very kind and spent an hour and a half with us showing us all of the ins and outs of the castle, and stories behind them. It was really fun! The buildings on that side of the courtyard had been restored.

 This is the chapel, They discovered a deep well and several treasure under the floor.

 There was a soldier was found below the chapel as well, I am standing next to the cover that was over his grave .

 The most valuable item found , thus far is this coin. The silver one that has an elephant on it. This coin dates back to the time of Christ. That which is Caesar's pay to Caesar. This would have been the type of silver coin used to pay Judas for his betrayal of Christ. ( Okay it just disappeared when I tried to point to the coin. The coin will have to show up in the next post!)

 This is one of the many hallways we walked through. I quickly looked at the picture and saw spots and decided I had a poor shot and took another one.

 Can you believe all the circles!. We took pictures all through the castle and this is the only place this happened.

 This is outside the castle with the famous bridge. the bridge sides swing back to the wall, they don't lift up to let ships pass through.
The Hansen's are also serving , working with the Singles in Italy.

We went back inside to exit & as we went through we were shown this small room. This is the room of the 3 musketeers . For real. They were to guard this entry area!

Across the street a couple blocks away we ran into these Greece Ruins. Everywhere, HISTORY