2024

RAMPARTS AND GUNBOATS

Fortifications and ramparts to visit
4.3/5
8 reviews
Imposing fortifications built between 1561 and 1588, surrounding the Upper ... Read more
 Bergamo
2024

ROCCA BORROMEO

Fortifications and ramparts to visit
4.3/5
3 reviews
Rare example of a perfectly preserved medieval fortified building in ... Read more
 Angera
2024

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Fortifications and ramparts to visit

Imposing, the ramparts are flanked on their northern side by six semi-circular towers. Well preserved, they contain dwellings from the medieval period.

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 Soncino
2024

PIZZIGHETTONE FORTRESS

Fortifications and ramparts to visit

The largest fortress in the Duchy of Milan. It is here that François I was imprisoned a few months before being sent to Madrid.

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2024

WINDOW WALL

Fortifications and ramparts to visit
Important system of walls designed at the end of the 15th century in Crema. Read more
 Crema
2024

PUSTERLA DI SANT'AMBROGIO

Fortifications and ramparts to visit
Door that marked one of the twelve minor accesses to the city. Read more
 Milan
2024

ROCCA SFORZESCA

Fortifications and ramparts to visit
Fifteenth-century military fortress skillfully restored in the nineteenth ... Read more
 Soncino