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The Egg Castle or Castel dell'Ovo is a castle located on a small island, the Megarides, where colonists from Cumae founded the original nucleus of the city in the 6th century BC but most of the castle was constructed by Frederick II and later expanded by the Angevins. In the 1st century AD the Roman patrician Lucius Licinius Lucullus built on the site of the current castle a villa which was fortified in the early 5th century by Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III (425-455).