Castel dell'Ovo (in Italian, "Egg Castle") is perched on an island on the Gulf of Naples, Southern Italy. According to legend, the castle's name comes from medieval times. Virgil, a great sorcerer and poet took the first egg laid by a particular chicken. He placed the egg inside a carafe through the very tight aperture of that vessel. Then he had the entire carafe, egg inside, put inside a cage of the finest wrought iron.
He had the cage fastened with sheets of iron under a beam of oak that was placed leaning against the walls of a little room, made particularly for this occasion, with two grooves through which the light could enter. He had it kept with great diligence and solemnity in that little room in a secret place and had it secured by doors and locks of iron, since the entire fate of the castle depended on that egg.
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