The Castello di Acquafredda is a medieval castle in Siliqua, in the province of South Sardinia, Italy. While it is a fairly widespread opinion that the castle was built by order of Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, who became the owner of the fort in 1258, the castle dates back to an earlier period as it is already mentioned in a papal bull of 1215.
After the death of Count Ugolino, the castle passed to Pisa and then, in 1324, to the Aragonese. It was abandoned since 1410 and later passed to various Sardinian feudal lords until it was ransomed by the King of Sardinia Victor Amadeus III in 1785.
Recently, excavations near the castle site have yielded the remains of three men, aged between 34 and 45, buried in the bare earth.
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