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  2. List of castles in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Ruins of the fortress’’Fortezza Vecchia’’ Castello di Acquafredda, Siliqua-Cixerri; Castello di Arcuentu (Castello di Erculentu), Arbus, castle ruins on Monte Arcuentu; Castello di Baratuli ( Castello di Monte Oladiri), Monastir; Casa Fortezza Marchesi de Silva, Villasor; Castello di Gioiosa Guardia, Villamassargia

  3. Castel del Monte, Apulia - Wikipedia

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    Castel del Monte (Italian for "Castle of the Mountain"; Barese: Castìdde du Monte) is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated on a hill in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It was built during the 1240s by King Frederick II, who had inherited the lands from his mother Constance of Sicily. In the 18th century, the castle's ...

  4. Walls of Lucca - Wikipedia

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    The walls of Lucca are a series of stone, brick, and earthwork fortifications surrounding the central city of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy. They are among the best preserved Renaissance fortifications in Europe, and at 4 kilometers and 223 meters in circumference they are the second largest intact example of a fully walled Renaissance city after ...

  5. List of cities with defensive walls - Wikipedia

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    The town hall is built over a canal running through the center of town and defends a system of locks with which the land surrounding the fortress could be inundated. Nijmegen: Gelderland Sizable parts of the fortifications remain intact. Sizable parts of the medieval city walls remain to the west and east of the old city.

  6. Sforza Castle - Wikipedia

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    The Sforza Castle (Italian: Castello Sforzesco [kasˈtɛllo sforˈtsesko]; Milanese: Castell Sforzesch [kasˈtɛl sfurˈsɛsk]) is a medieval fortification located in Milan, northern Italy. It was built in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza , Duke of Milan , on the remnants of a 14th-century fortification.

  7. Walls of Grosseto - Wikipedia

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    The Walls of Grosseto (Italian: mura di Grosseto), known also as Medicean Walls (Italian: mura medicee), are a series of defensive brick walls surrounding the city of Grosseto in Tuscany, Italy. The city walls, spanning approximately 3 kilometers, form a hexagonal shape and are a notable example of late-Renaissance bastion fort architecture ...

  8. Verrucole Castle - Wikipedia

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    Verrucole Castle Medieval kitchen. Verrucole Castle (Italian: Fortezza delle Verrucole) is a medieval fortress located in the Garfagnana region of Tuscany, Italy, in San Romano in Garfagnana comune, near the city of Lucca. It is 600 metres (2,000 ft) above sea level. The fortress has recently undergone partial restoration.

  9. Walls of Genoa - Wikipedia

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    The walls of Genoa (mura di Genova in Italian, miage de Zena in Ligurian) constitute in their whole the several circles of walls that protected and defended the city of Genoa, former capital of the homonymous republic. To this day, large portions of these walls remain, and Genoa has more and longer walls than any other city in Italy.

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