Resti di cinta merlata intorno al giardino della casa canonica

The wall fragments here are the stubborn remnant of Santhià’s medieval defences. What remains is a short, angular stretch of vertical masonry, built in the Norman manner with river cobbles set in herringbone courses and brick. The fabric tells a layered story: you can still see the original Ghibelline merlons (the swallow-tailed battlements favoured by imperial factions), and then, rising a metre or so above them, a later phase of construction. The wall has been patched up over the centuries, iron tie-rods, visible since at least 1979, were driven in to hold it together. There are brick saw-tooth decorations and faint traces of painted plaster. These are not grand ruins but the quiet, stubborn bones of a fortified borgo, now enclosing a garden. A place for the curious eye to read the logic of medieval urban defence in stone, brick, and the small, telling details of repair.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.