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Extract from the Melfi Travel Guides:
From the lakes a road runs down to the historic town of
MELFI
, long a centre of strategic importance, taken by the Normans in 1041 and their first capital in the south of Italy. It was in the formidable
Castle
at the top of the town that Pope Nicholas II formally recognized the conquests of Robert Guiscard over the Byzantines and Saracens, thereby legitimizing the piratical Normans and confirming their place in the embattled history of the south. It was here also that Guiscard imprisoned his first wife Alberada, and from where, in 1231, Frederick II issued his
Constitutiones Augustales
, reckoned t...
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