Tropea Castle

File:Tropea castle Daguerreotype.jpg of Tropea castle prior to its destruction in 1876]]

Tropea Castle was a castle in Tropea in Vibo Valentia province of Calabria in southern Italy.[https://archive.org/details/routelieutenant00hansgoog/page/n232 Route of Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Nightingall, K.C.B. overland from India] (In a series of letters) Author: John Hanson, Captain. Publisher: London : Printed for T. Baker, 1820. p. 214 Quote: "...and if I wished to select a picture of repose and fertility I would certainly choose the village, castle and woods in the neighbourhood of Tropea" In 1725, one of four towers of the castle was damaged, and the entire castle was finally destroyed in 1876, by Carlo Toraldo with explosives.[http://www.prolocotropea.eu/public/en_archeologia.html prolocotropea.eu] On 8 July 1806, during the Napoleonic Wars, 400 Polish soldiers surrendered at Tropea Castle to the captain of HMS Apollo.{{cite book|author=Gareth Glover|title=The Forgotten War Against Napoleon: Conflict in the Mediterranean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AvMmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113|date=30 June 2017|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-5267-1589-0|page=113}}