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Horrible Stories from Lucca

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Ilaria: "Ouch...the baby kicks!" Paolo: " We'll call him Ladislao."

Rat canal It was invented by the guides to attract people. They claimed that the prisoners were handcuffed there. It was a rat canal because it was said to be full of rats. In fact, it was used to drain water away from the castle. Furthermore, the guides invented a torture chamber, but in reality there wasn’t torture at Špilberk.

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The whitish creature was coming towards us. It was coming at our speed. It was neither approaching nor receding. But it was coming in the air about 30 cm from the ground. When one of them looked back, it was still behind them. It followed them for a long time. They were all really scared. Later, when they approached the houses, they realized that the creature behind them had disappeared.

Another legend about a pact with the devil comes from Borgo a Mozzano, a village that is 20 kilometres far from Lucca. What has the devil got to do with the construction of a bridge? Look at the picture: don't you think its shape is a bit weird?

Everyone in Lucca shared Paolo's grief...

....  but there were also those who supposed that Paolo himself had poisoned Ilaria and her dog in a fit of jealousy...

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We hope you will come to Brno one day, because there are a lot more stories yet to tell.

In general: Špilberk was founded in 13th &nbsp;century. In 1783, it became casemates. It was cancelled 1855. There were about 3&nbsp;500 prisoners imprisoned there. Only every sixth prisoner survived. The casemates also became a Gestapo prison for two years.

Prisoners:&nbsp; -every sixth prisoner returned home&nbsp;&nbsp; -they received clean clothes once a week&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -they slept on wooden sloping boards without a mattress&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - it was not possible to go WC at night&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - they pulled the boats up the river&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -they suffered mentally

Špilberk is probably the darkest place in Brno, but there are more stories about our city. 

Ilaria's tomb attracted poets from all around Europe. Down the centuries, they dedicated their verses to Ilaria and her striking beauty. Here is Pier Paolo Pasolini's poem from the Ashes of Gramsci (1957) that can also be considered an ekphrasis of Jacopo della Quercia's statue.

Dear reader, I want to tell you some strange, scary and tragic stories that happened in Lucca a long, long time ago. Are you ready? The first one is about an aristocratic woman called Lucrezia Buonvisi.

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Describing the incident, Satu Erol stated that while she was sitting at home with her husband, he saw the sofa cover suddenly start to burn. As soon as the cover was put out, the machine cover caught fire, and when she put it out, the cushion in the stove caught fire, and they were stumped. Satu Erol said, "When I am at home, a fire breaks out. I stayed in another house for 2 nights and there was no fire. I came today and the fire started again," and stated that she was very overwhelmed. Satu Erol's husband İsmail Erol confirmed these events. Neighborhood residents also stated that they did not understand why the fire broke out and that they were waiting for a bucket of ready water at any moment. During the shooting, the spontaneous combustion of Satu Erol's sweater was reflected in the lenses.

As a token of love and loyalty, Paolo Guinigi gave Ilaria a little dog, from whom she would never part.

Paolo and Ilaria were madly in love and used to walk along the roof-garden of Torre Guinigi. 

Ilaria: "The sunrise....it's wonderful....I'd like to stay here for a while... ." Paolo: "As you wish, my darling." Ilaria: "Or even....forever."

Unfortunately, after a few agonising days, Ilaria died....

....together with her little faithful dog.

Something mysterious happened in Lucca...

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Some voices came from inside the cave. Another man, Hakan, entered the cave without hesitation. The weather was quite dark. Hakan lit a lighter inside the cave, illuminating the surroundings a little bit. Later, Hakan screamed from the cave, "Escape, run away quickly!" ' he said. He was very frightened. He went ten meters ahead and stopped and said to one of them:&nbsp; “Ömer, shine a light inside the cave!” Ömer approached with Serkan and lit the lighter. All of a sudden, a large and whitish creature started walking towards us.

At first we visited Casemates at Špilberk castle in Brno. It is a scary place to go....

Once upon a time there was a shepherdess who took her sheep to graze in the mountains.  One day she met a shepherd boy and fell in love with him, but unfortunately he decided to leave. The shepherdess remained in the mountains, staring at the sea and waiting for his return.  In the mountains another shepherd fell in love with her. Seeing her always sad looking at the sea, he wanted to make a pact with the devil.

The shepherd became a huge stone and lay down right in front of where the shepherdess brought her sheep. In this way, not seeing the sea anymore, she would no longer be sad.  And that’s why this mountain is called “The Dead Man's Mountain”.

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NAME: Zita (she was born in 1218 and died in 1278) DETAILS: a saint  that worked as a housewife in the Fatinelli family. She is the patron saint of housewives. NOTE: She was very generous to poor people. One day she carried food in her clothes and her owner saw her. The owner asked her what she was carrying and since her owner didn’t want to give out important things, she answered that she was carrying some flowers. And flowers miraculously came out of her clothes.  Zita is one of the “Incorruptibles” — bodies of Catholic saints that miraculously didn't deteriorate. She lies in the church of San Frediano. This saint is still commemorated in Lucca on 27th April, when lots of people go to the amphitheatre and buy flowers.

was Paolo Guinigi's second wife and, definitely, the most beloved. She was born in Zuccarello, Liguria, in 1379 and spent her childhood and youth in the castle where she had an appropriate upbringing for her noble origins. When her father arranged the marriage with Paolo Guinigi, Lord of Lucca, Ilaria welcomed it willingly since she placed her faith in her parents' love and knew that they would never make any decision that could harm her.

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The mysterious event that took place in a house in Samsun's Vezirköprü district stunned those who saw it. In the house of İsmail Erol (74) and Satu Erol (74), residing in Esenköy District, a fire breaks out unexpectedly on the clothes, machine cover and shelves. Especially when Satu Erol is at home, the cause of the fire cannot be determined. Alaattin Atay (42), who served as the first member of the neighborhood, said that they had been on guard duty for 3 nights and that a fire broke out in various parts of the house for an unknown reason, and that it broke out again in another place after the fire was extinguished. &nbsp;Atay said, "At first, we thought that this fire was caused by electricity. We changed all the installations. However, the fire broke out again. Then we cut the electricity completely. The fire broke out again. We collected and burned the items damaged by the fire. When Satu Erol is at home, there is a fire. When she leaves the house, there is no fire. Everyone, including all the neighbors, witnessed this incident," he said, adding that he was astounded. Yahya Ak (59), who had been on watch for two nights, said that he could not get over his surprise and showed the burning places in the house. Expressing that he witnessed it himself, Ak claimed that a fire broke out when Satu Erol was at home and other people were outside, and that he had witnessed this event many times.

Walled Hass 	For six years the Hussites sieged Brno, but they didn´t get it. So they decided to get it by trickery. 	One night they secretly met with a councilor of Brno Haas and with other conspiratores in &nbsp;the tavern. The councilor promissed them that if they gave him money he would open the gate. But that night in the tavern there was a clown Boro of king Zikmund.When Boro heard it he ran away to the tavern Black Bear and he stayed there. The next day he said that in the evening he would reveal a scandal. In the evening in the tavern he met a lot of people and he just stared and when the people asked him what was going on he said that he couldn´t start without Hass and that he was just probably late because he was planning with Hussites some rickery. 	The people didn´t wait for anything and they killed him as soon it was possible. His head ended up on a stake. To prevent this again other councellores made a stone head and the stone head is on Sword street till now.

&nbsp;NAUGHTY LITTLE MAN&nbsp; &nbsp; Czechs and Germans had lived side by side in Brno since time immemorial. Both the Czechs and Germans needed a church, but they could not come to an agreement, and therefore two churches began to be built. The Czechs who lived in the upper part of Brno started to build a church in Petrov. The Germans, having their houses down, began to build the church the church of St. Jakub.&nbsp;&nbsp; While they had more money at Petrov, they had a better master builder at Jakub, who got the job done quickly. The master was a good companion and a jolly fellow, and for that reason people liked him very much. Once, after work in the pub, he joked that the church near Jakub would be finished long before anything was built on Petrov. This offended the Czech councilor very much. They therefore decided to escort the master builder out of Brno. Surprisingly, he did not protest too much, he just asked for one wish to be fulfilled: “Let me finish the last window I am currently working on.” They agreed. The window was finished by nightfall.&nbsp; When the Brno councilors uncovered the window in the morning, they were horrified. They found that the master had exacted his revenge on them. Above the window arch we can still see little man sticking out his bare bottom towards Petrov, at those who drove him out of town.&nbsp; THE END&nbsp;

The tomb was placed -and can still be admired- in San Martino's cathedral. 

Now you'll read a factfile about Saint Zita, a humble housewife who lived in Lucca in the thirteenth century. Are you curious about the miracles she made? Go on reading and you'll find out.

The devil has something to do with the construction of Palazzo Bernardini, a majestic architecture that stands in the square that bears the name of the same family. During its construction, dated 1500, it is said that the devil convinced the Bernardinis to tear down a sacred image positioned on a structure not in line with what was designed by Nicolao Civitali. When the works got underway, the skills of the workers were useless: they tried to wall up the window jamb, but the stone remained irreparably bent. And even today, for anyone passing by, it won't be difficult to notice the bizarre position of the jamb.

The bridge is in Borgo a Mozzano, near Lucca, in Italy and it has two names. The least known is Maddalena's bridge, but the most known is The Devil's Bridge and it's based on a legend. The legend tells that the man that built it was having trouble building it and he didn't have enough time to do it. So the devil told him that he wanted to make a deal with him. The deal was that once the work was done he should give the devil the soul of the first living being to cross the bridge. The man, after thinking about it for a while, accepted the deal.

The next day the man went to the bridge and, to his own surprise, the bridge was magically finished. The devil told him that he did his part to respect the pact and now it was his turn to do the same. The man didn't expect that the bridge would be ready in just one night, but he was ready to give the devil the soul he asked for. So, from a hidden corner, he took a dog and made it cross the bridge. He was sad, but he thought that it was better than a person. The bridge is still there, and no human being was sacrificed to make it.

Soldier Filip He was a prisoner who murdered his military commander and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was in the worst prison. He survived there for 22 months which is the longest of any prisoner.

Paolo Guinigi welcomed Ilaria and her bridal procession on Ponte San Pietro, at about 4 km from Lucca. The following day the marriage was celebrated in the Church of San Romano and, for the occasion, Paolo repealed the law that prevented nobles from wearing splendid clothes: Ilaria was therefore surrounded by unprecedented wealth.

About the crooked turret Brno was in a bad situation after the Hussite wars. But they gradually managed to save up and wanted to build something in Brno with the money. It was supposed to be a town hall that they don't have anywhere in the world. They hired a stone mason Pilgram to build that town hall and promised him a generous sum of money for it. He hired workers and started building. But gradually he started to run out of money. Therefore he asked the councilors to give him the money deposit but they told him that they would give him the money when the building was finished. So Pilgram set to work as quickly as possible and soon the town hall was finished. The councilors came to take a look, but to their surprise when they saw that the turret at the very top of the town hall was crooked. At that moment Pilgram cried out: This turret will forever be crooked, no one can straighten it, it will be there as a reminder of how crooked you were to me when you refused to give me the money to build it.

was born a little less than a year after the wedding and he was destined to become the heir of the Guinigi family. Both Paolo and Ilaria were overflowing with joy. A second birth followed few years later, in late November 1405, when Ilaria gave birth to a beautiful girl. They named her Ilaria Minor after her mother because Paolo saw in her the same beauty of his wife. They seemed to have fulfilled their dream but, alas, their happiness would be marred by an adverse fate...

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The story of the mysterious creature that three friends unexpectedly encountered in a creek cave near Samsun Forest Management, and the fearful experience they had afterwards... &nbsp;	There is a cave next to the stream around Samsun Forest Enterprise. A very strange thing happened to them there. They were three people. After a while, one of them, Serkan, said that he saw flashing lights at the entrance of the cave.

Václav Babinský: Václav Babinský, a famous robber, was imprisoned at Špilberk castle, but above the casemates.

Political prisoners They were separated from the others. Italian revolutionaries, for example, were imprisoned here. Silvio Pellico, a poet, writer, playwright, teacher and journalist was one of them.

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Mysterious creature in a cave in SAMSUN

In 1408 Paolo Guinigi commissioned to Jacopo della Quercia a tomb in honour of Ilaria, as a mark of his true love and...perhaps...to cover up those rumours. 

Lucrezia Buonvisi was a noble woman from Lucca, born in 1572. She had to marry one of her cousins, but he died before the wedding. Therefore, she was promised to her cousin's brother, but he died, too. Finally she got married to the third brother, named Lelio. Lucrezia cheated on her husband many times. Her most popular lover was Massimiliano Arnolfini, who decided to kill Lelio. For this reason he went to jail, while Lucrezia, under the protection of Pope Clement VII, became a nun named Umilia. In the convent Umilia had many lovers, who she killed with poison. Many women instead died of hunger there. In fact, they didn't eat because they were scared about the food that Umilia poisoned for jealousy. When Paul V became the new Pope, he sentenced Lucrezia to seven years in prison. nobody had news about her, at least until her mother's will, written a few days after Lucrezia's release from prison.

All these stories were set in the centre of Lucca, but there are other legends that come from outside the walls, not too far from our town. For example, there is a mountain in Garfagnana, in the Apuan Alps, around 50 kilometres from Lucca, called "Omo morto" (Dead Man in English). Why has it got this macabre name? Let's find out...

Dear diary, today I'm very sad because my wife died while she was giving birth, but I'm also happy because my second daughter was born. I'm thinking of hiring Jacopo Della Quercia to make Ilaria's sarcophagus. I'd like to make a sarcophagus with Ilaria on it and, at her feet, the dog that I gave her as a present, who unfortunately also died today.

Now I have to go, but tomorrow I will write again, my dear diary. Paolo Guinigi 08/12/1405

Another very famous noble woman from Lucca was Ilaria Del Carretto, Paolo Guinigi's wife. She died at a very young age and her devoted husband hired one of the best sculptors of that time, Jacopo Della Quercia, to make his tomb. You can still admire it in San Martino's church, the cathedral of Lucca, here on your right. Do you want to read a page from Paolo Guinigi's diary?

If you take a walk around Lucca and cross Bernardini square, you can see a strange stone, bending from the wall of an old palace. Why is it impossible to fix? Ask the devil...

Why is it noon in Brno at 11 am&nbsp; In 1645 Brno was sieged by the Swedes. It was very hard fight. After four months, when Brno was losing power, people didn´t have food and water, Lennart Torstensona, a Swedish commander, made a decision that Brno was not worth it.&nbsp; In the evening before the last battle they together met in a pub in Komín and he said that if the Sweedish army didn´t conquer Brno until 12am, they would go away.&nbsp;&nbsp; But he didnt know´ that the innkeeper heard him. The brave innkeepeer told Louis Raduit De Souches, Brno´s colonel.&nbsp; Already in the morning, it was apparent that Brno was hopeless. Therefore De Souches sent one of his students to Petrov cathedral and let the noon strike. It was 11am.&nbsp; Torstenson kept his words and he blew the horns to retreat.&nbsp; And since those days in Brno noon has rung at ELEVEN !

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