The Castle of San Sebastián is located on a small island which, according to the classical tradition, in ancient times already housed the Phoenician temple of Moloch (ancient Canaanite deity, to which human victims were sacrificed in the valley of Hinnom) and Kronos (the youngest of the 12 Titans of Greek mythology, as well as the father of Zeus).It owes its name to a hermitage built in 1457 by the crew of a Venetian ship, after having obtained the authorization to stop in this place as a lazzaretto (hospital) to treat the plague that had struck them. In fact, San Sebastiano was often invoked
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