Some stretches of curtain wall and the remains of what was probably a tower are all that survive of La Rocca, a fortress dismantled by the French in the early nineteenth century. The walls, some with a battered base, are built of roughly squared stone blocks bound with abundant mortar and laid in reasonably regular horizontal courses. A few windows retain their stone frames, and there are some low-arched openings with jambs of neatly dressed ashlar. No original internal structures are still identifiable; the surrounding topsoil is a jumble of building debris mixed with earth and vegetation. What remains is a skeletal fragment of a medieval fortification, its military purpose legible only in the sturdy, unadorned masonry and the strategic siting that once commanded the landscape. The site speaks less of its former strength than of the thoroughness with which it was erased.
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