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Torremaggiore

Torremaggiore is a town and comune in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy .

It lies on a hill, 169 m over the sea, and is famous for production of wine and olives.

The history of Terremaggiore is strictly connected to that ot the burg of Fiorentino (also Castel Fiorentino), a Byzantine frontier stronghold founded by the catepan Basil Boioannes in 1018 . Later a Norman , Hohenstaufen , Angevine and finally Aragonese possession, it is especially remembered as the death place of Emperor Frederick II ( December 13 , 1250 ).

Five years later the burg was attacked by Pope Alexander IV 's troops, and the inhabitants fled to a nearby Benedictine abbey. Later they were allowed to found a new settlement, called Codacchio , later, when other refugees from Dragonara arrived, christened Terra Maioris ("Major Land"), the modern Torremaggiore. This burg was later a fief of the counts of Sangro . It was destroyed by an earthquake on July 30 , 1627 .

From: Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torremaggiore