It was constructed on the orders of King Alfonso III of Aragon, the conqueror of the island in 1287 on the site of an old mosque.
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He went to Rieti, where the new Pope Nicholas IV immediately absolved him from all the conditions he had sworn to observe, crowned him King of Sicily in 1289, and excommunicated King Alfonso III of Aragon.