This film is adapted from the Neapolitan fairy tale collection "Five Days" by Jim Batista Basil in the 17th century. Written in Neapolitan, the book is also the first literary collection composed of fairy tales in Europe.
The film tells the story of members of the royal family living in three neighboring kingdoms. They are a queen who loves children, a king who is obsessed with female sexuality, and a king who is obsessed with a strange fleas.
Donagata Castle
The first story is that a queen bent on begging for a child and asked her husband to fight against the sea beast. He ate the heart of the sea beast and gave birth to a child. However, the maid who helped her cook the heart also gave birth to a child who looked exactly like her.
The very heart-pounding scene of hide-and-seek in the maze in the Queen’s story is at Donnafugata Castle. The exquisite labyrinth just surpassed people's sight, making people confused, inexplicably uneasy and exciting at the same time.
Donagata Castle is located in Sicily, Italy, about 15 kilometers from Ragusa. The history of this castle can be traced back to the 14th century, but most of the images we can see today come from the 19th century. It has a fusion of architectural styles and is a masterpiece of neoclassical and neo-Gothic architecture.
In addition to the maze we saw in the movie, its internal structure is also very magnificent and beautiful. Entering this building, you will understand the Sicilian nobility's demanding details in that era. The wallpapers here are all hand-painted, exquisite and beautiful. Corresponding to different rooms have different painting patterns, very detailed.
Alcantra, r.
The scene where the sea beasts were killed was the Alcantara River in Sicily in Southern Italy. The water here is clear and green, and the stone walls on the bank are gray, with traces of carved carvings one after another.
Its water source is 1,250 meters above sea level and rushes for 50 kilometers. The gorge divides Etna into the Nebrodi and Peloritani mountains. The erosion of the river has formed a unique geographical shape. Walking along this magical river, you can see the landscape that completely shocks you.
Castel Monte
The second story is a king who loves a flea very much. Treat it as a pet and raise this flea to be as big as a pig. After the flea died, it peeled off the flea's skin and said, "Who can guess what it is," it married his daughter. As a result, he married his daughter to the only savage who knew it was flea skin.
The king’s castle is in Castel del Monte, near the town of Ruvo, Puglia. The castle was built in the 13th century and is considered to be one of the most complex structures in the Middle Ages.
Castel Monte is known as the "most beautiful castle in Italy". It was built on a 530-meter-high hill and has undergone 10 years of construction. Its eight sides are 16.5 meters long and have eight corners. On the corners are eight octagonal towers with a height of 25 meters. The castle looks very closed and strong from the outside. There is an octagonal courtyard inside the castle.
On this vast plain, looking at a map of Pingchuan, only this white castle stood here, as if it came from outer space.
Roccas Carreña Castle
The third story is that a king fell in love with a singing girl, who was actually an ugly old woman. After being found by the king to be an ugly old woman, she was thrown directly from the palace room into the woods along the cliff by the king. A witch rescued her. She woke up and turned into a beautiful girl. After she became a queen, her old and ugly sister came to the palace to find her, and an even more bizarre story happened.
The castle where the king lived is in Rocas Carreña Castle in the Abruzzo region. This magical medieval castle was built on a cliff mountain. It seems that the other half of the castle collapsed with the mountain.
Below the castle is a cliff, and above it is the sky, which seems to occupy a corner of the end of the world, completely separated from the rest of the world. It is so separated from our real life, but it is also integrated with the reality of nature.
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