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  2. List of castles in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Poppi Castle, Poppi Castello di Romena, Pratovecchio Castello di Bibbione, San Casciano in Val di Pesa Castle of Sammezzano, Reggello Castello di Punta Ala, Punta Ala Castello di Triana, Roccalbegna Forte Stella, Porto Ercole Rocca Silvana, Castell'Azzara Old Fortress of Livorno, Livorno Gherardesca's Castle, Bolgheri Castello Malaspina ...

  3. List of cities with defensive walls - Wikipedia

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    The powerful fortress town was destroyed by French forces in 1677 AD. Sizable remnants of the medieval city wall remain, buried underneath a later earthen rampart which still surrounds most of the old town. Sluis: Zeeland Yes The city wall remains intact.

  4. Cittadella - Wikipedia

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    Cittadella (Venetian: Sitadeła) is a medieval walled city in the province of Padua, northern Italy, founded in the 13th century as a military outpost of Padua. The surrounding wall has been restored and is 1,461 metres (4,793 ft) in circumference with a diameter of around 450 metres (1,480 ft). There are four gates which roughly correspond the ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Lucca - Wikipedia

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    Lucca was an important city and fortress even in the sixth century, when Narses besieged it for several months in 553. From 576 to 797, under the Lombards, it was the capital of a duchy, known as Duchy of Tuscia, which included a large part of today's Tuscany and the province of Viterbo, during this time the city also minted its own coins. [17]

  7. San Gimignano - Wikipedia

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    San Gimignano (Italian pronunciation: [san dʒimiɲˈɲaːno]; named after St. Geminianus) is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Five Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of its tower houses, [3 ...

  8. Medieval fortification - Wikipedia

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    Beaumaris Castle in Wales was built in the late 13th century and is an example of concentric castles which developed in the late medieval period. Badajoz Castle of Topoľčany in Slovakia Medieval fortification refers to medieval military methods that cover the development of fortification construction and use in Europe , roughly from the fall ...

  9. Monteriggioni - Wikipedia

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    City walls of Monteriggioni. Monteriggioni is a medieval walled town, located on a natural hillock, built by the Sienese in 1214–19 as a front line defensive fortification in their wars against Florence, [4] [5] by assuming command of the Via Cassia running through the Val d'Elsa and Val Staggia to the west.

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