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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture#Italy
•  Info Castel del Monte (Italian for "Castle of the Mountain") is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated on a hill in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It was built during the 1240s by the Emperor Frederick II, who had inherited the lands from his mother Constance of Sicily. In the 18th century, the castle's interior marbles and remaining furnishings were removed. It has neither a moat nor a drawbridge and some considered it never to have been intended as a defensive fortress; however, archaeological work has suggested that it originally had a curtain wall. Described by the Enciclopedia Italiana as "the most fascinating castle built by Frederick II", the site is protected as a World Heritage Site. It also appears on the Italian version of the one cent Euro coin.
  created User:Berthold Werner with help from LivioAndronico - uploaded and- nominated by -- Berthold Werner (talk) 07:48, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Berthold Werner (talk) 07:48, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 09:14, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:38, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 17:05, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose Already in the QI nomination the stiching errors have not been removed! (see notes) --Llez (talk) 17:37, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

 Question Are you sure you have erased your browser cache? --Berthold Werner (talk) 18:00, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

 Support -- Oops, sorry --Llez (talk) 19:20, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

•  Oppose Excuse me Berthold, this could have been a great picture (I especially like the shape), but I'm worried about the very unsharp areas at the edges. Not sure if stitching was necessary here. --A.Savin 23:34, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support yes, there are a couple of minor stitching errors visible at 100% - if you look carefully. I'm sure Berthold will take care of these as well. And yes, edges appear somewhat unsharp, again only at 100%. But it's a large file. Scale it down a bit, let's say to 3000x3000, and everthing's fine. So that's not a dealbreaker at all. Subject, colors, and composition are excellent, therefore I see no reason why this nom should not be featured. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:00, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Wolf im Wald 12:13, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support per Martin. Daniel Case (talk) 18:12, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support M★Zaplotnik ^(edits) 09:18, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 9 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--cart-Talk 15:28, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture#Italy