Castello Pandone
Castello Pandone is a fortress in Italy. It is one of many fortified structures across the country, typically built for defence and later adapted as n…
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Castello Pandone is a fortress in Italy. It is one of many fortified structures across the country, typically built for defence and later adapted as n…
This fortress, a rough pentagon in plan, makes brutal use of its site. On the west, it exploits a steep escarpment; to the east, a gentler slope. The …
This is a fortress in Italy. Its name simply means ‘castle’. Fortresses of this type were built for defence and control of the surrounding territory.…
Castello Carafa stands as a blunt statement of medieval purpose. Its irregular polygonal core, built of strikingly large stone blocks, is a fortress d…
Castello Sforzesco is a large fortress in Milan, Italy. It is a notable example of a medieval and Renaissance defensive structure.…
On the north-east side, the Castello di Gambatesa presents a formidable face: two square towers and a dramatic split between its two wings, dictated b…
This is a fortress in Italy called Castello. It is a fortified structure, typical of the many defensive buildings found across the Italian landscape.…
The Exilles Fort is a fortified complex in the Susa Valley, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Northern Italy. It sits on a spur commanding one of …
Forte di Exilles is a fortress in the Piedmont region of Italy. Norman fortifications in Italy are typically characterised by robust stone constructio…
A fortified bastion on the road to the Dora Riparia. The Mura del Forte di Exilles are the outer defensive walls of a larger mountain fortress. Fortif…
At Capo Passero, the fortress rises from a low, battered base, its walls built of rough, irregular stonework rendered in plaster, with squared limesto…
Palazzo Ducale is a fortress in Italy. It is a type of fortified palace common across the country, often combining defensive and residential functions…
A fortress in Genazzano. It is one of many fortified structures in the Italian region, typical of the medieval period's need for defence and territori…
A hulking presence on the main square, this fortress anchors itself with a sheer, battered base of irregular stone blocks. Its mass is softened by win…
La Rocca is a fortress in Italy. It stands as a defensive structure typical of the region's fortified architecture.…
The Castello, detto della Marchesa Adelaide, stands on a height overlooking the historic centre of Susa, about 50 kilometres west of Turin, next to th…
On a low hill at Castrovillari’s historic heart, this sanctuary rises 350 metres above the surrounding plain, its position a natural terrace over the …
Castello di Brucoli is a fortress in the town of Brucoli, on the eastern coast of Sicily. Fortresses of this type in the region were often built to de…
Villa Grimaldi "la Fortezza" is a fortress in Italy. It belongs to a class of fortified rural residences common in the Italian countryside, designed a…
The Castello del Borgo is a compact fortress of L-shaped plan, formed by two distinct building blocks: a tower-house and a perpendicular wing. Its ver…
Isola di Vittoria Garcia is a fortress in Italy. It is a defensive structure typical of the region's military architecture.…
On a scrubby Ligurian hillside, Forte Garcia stands as a blunt statement of military purpose. Its continuous masonry, of rough, unhewn blocks plastere…
A medieval fortress in Italy, the Tour d'Amount e castello di Borgo Vecchio stands as a fortified remnant of its period. It is a structure typical of …
Castello Estense is a medieval fortress in Ferrara, Italy. It is a well-preserved example of a moated castle from the medieval period, typical of the …
At Castello Pandone, the architecture speaks in layers. Three round bastion towers mark the northern, western and southern corners, their circular for…
A fortress in Italy. Its name refers to a factory or workshop, suggesting an industrial or productive purpose rather than a purely military one. Many …
On the ground floor of this residential building, a pointed stone arch frames a rectangular monumental area containing a wayside cross. The structure …
Rocca del Passerello is a fortress whose plan is oddly, engagingly irregular, centred on two internal courtyards. Its outer skin is part-rendered, par…
A fortress in Italy. Its precise age and history are unrecorded in the available sources. Fortresses of this kind were typically built for defence and…
High on a mountaintop, the Sanctuary of the Madonna di Monteforte commands a panoramic view. Its origins are medieval, though the precise starting poi…
Il castello sorge alla sommità del promontorio. A pianta trapezoidale, con torri angolari e cortile quadrangolare: dal cortile si accede ai sottani ed…
This is a fortress that never saw a siege. Masseria Castello is a rectangular block of stone and brick, a single, solid structure composed of six stru…
The Forte Bramafam, a late-19th-century fortification in the Val di Susa near Bardonecchia (TO), stands on the eponymous ridge at 1,447 metres above s…
A Norman fortress in Italy. Rocca delle Caminate is a fortified structure typical of its period, designed for both defence and territorial control.…
A fortress in Civita Castellana, Sangallo is a military work of the Renaissance period in Italy. The type is best known for its robust, geometrically …
On a spur of travertine rock, Castel di Luco rises as if the stone itself decided to grow into a fortress. The circular plan follows the natural shape…
Atika describes Castello-Palazzo Pandone. This fortress answers to the lie of the land, a compact, almost triangular prism of squared and plastered st…
Castello di S. Cassiano is a medieval fortress in Italy. It is a fortified structure typical of its period, designed for defence and control of the su…
This is the main front of the Forte di Exilles, a modern-era fortress in the Italian Alps. Like many such strongholds of the period, it was designed t…
This is a Baroque fortress in Italy. It is a defensive structure from that period, characterised by robust, angular bastions designed to withstand art…
The Castello-Palazzo Da Ponte is a fortress that has evolved into a palazzo, a common fate for strongholds no longer needed for defence. Its original …
The Castello Angioino di Vastogiradi is a fortified village, not a single castle, its irregular plan clinging to a hilltop. An intact curtain wall enc…
The Chiesa Madre di San Giacomo Maggiore is a church of unexpected character, its fortress-like exterior belying the refined interior. The longitudina…
This is no palace, but a sturdy, rectangular building of three storeys plus a basement, now given over to domestic life. Its plastered stone walls and…
This is a building that refuses to be rushed. A rectangular fortress of three storeys plus a basement, it now serves as a shop on the ground floor and…
The Edificio con torre circolare stands as a component of San Severino’s ancient castle fortifications, part of a defensive network that once guarded …
A Renaissance fortress in Italy. Castello di Ribano is a fortified structure typical of its period, when military architecture balanced defensive func…
A Roman fortress in Rocca Imperiale, Italy. This type of fortified structure was typical of the period's military and administrative presence across t…
Castello Sanfelice is a fortress built to the dictates of its rocky foundation. Its plan is polygonal, the walls following the uneven contours of the …
At the western edge of the medieval borgo, this Norman fortress stands as a compact, vertical statement of military intent. Its design follows the cla…
From the valley floor, Castello di Cusercoli presents as a long, grey silhouette, enlivened by the cypresses of its hanging gardens. The main body is …
This is a fortress utterly isolated from the monumental complex to which it once belonged, a casualty of the provincial road that now severs it. The C…
Magazzini Castello di Capua is a long, trapezoidal fortress building, its pitched roof a clear statement of purpose. Two storeys are marked by a strin…
Castello Ruffo di Amendolea is a medieval fortress in the town of Amendolea, at the heart of the Grecanica area in Reggio Calabria province. Its strat…
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 t…
The ruins of the old castle known as Del Carretto stand on a dominant position above the town of Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley, provin…
A fortress in Italy. Castello-Palazzo de Sangro is a fortified palace, a type of defensive residence common in the Italian peninsula.…
A fortress known as the Santuario della B.V. della Rocca, in Italy. It is an Early Christian site. Fortifications from this period often combined defe…
This is the Rocca Caterina Sforza, a fortress now serving as the perimeter wall of a prison in Italy. It is a defensive structure typical of the regio…
All'interno del castello, di particolare interesse storico-artistico è la cappella gentilizia. Essa fu costruita nel 1628, come si evince dall'iscrizi…
The Malatestiana is a fortress in Italy. It belongs to a class of medieval strongholds built by the Malatesta family, who were prominent rulers in the…
The Castello di Nervi, a fortress overlooking the Ligurian coast, is a study in layered construction. Its tower rises in mixed stone and brick, a stur…
Edificio di impianto planimetrico quadrangolare con torri angolari, strutture portanti in laterizio e pietra; copertura a tetto…
This is a Norman fortress in Italy. Castles of this period typically combined military function with the assertion of territorial control.…
A defensive outwork and barracks attached to the Forte di Exilles, in the upper Susa Valley. This is a modern-period fortress, part of a system of str…
Caponiera di San Bonifacio del Forte di Exilles is a modern-era fortress in Italy. It is a caponier, a defensive work projecting from the main fortifi…
The Castello Normanno is a quadrilateral fortress, measuring 52 by 60 metres and rising to a height of 15. Its four cylindrical corner towers are its …
A fortress in Italy. This is a fortified structure, of a type common across the Italian landscape. The period of its construction and use is not recor…
Castello Angioino Aragonese is a fortress of deliberate, layered complexity. Its design speaks of two distinct building phases, each answering a diffe…
This is a modern-era fortress in Italy bearing the name of the Della Gherardesca counts. Fortifications of this period in the region often reflect shi…
A Norman fortress in Italy, part of a second defensive wall. The surviving towers and curtain walls are characteristic of the period's military archit…
Castel Cicala perches on a knoll of the Colle Cicala, isolated and commanding over the valley below. Its oldest, western section follows the plan of e…
A steep ramp climbs from the village square to reach Il Castello Malatestiano di Monteleone, passing on the left a modest structure linked by a secret…
Forte Bramafam is a medieval fortress in Italy. It stands as a military structure typical of its period, built for defence and territorial control.…
This is a fortress built for war. The Rocca sits south of Monte Vettore, commanding the town of Arquata del Tronto and the ancient road below, the Via…
A fortress in Cerveteri, Italy, known as Ruspoli già Orsini. It stands as a fortified residence typical of the region's medieval and Renaissance power…
Castello Ciamarra sits at the heart of its town, on low ground, its plan an irregular trapezoid with uneven sides. The three towers at the corners are…
The castle of Granarola keeps its secrets close. Enter through the single gate in the encircling walls, and you are immediately met by a second inner …
Chiesa di S. Zaccaria is a fortress in Italy. It is a fortified structure, a type of building common across the Italian peninsula for centuries of def…
Edificio a pianta quadrangolare con torrioni angolari; strutture verticali in laterizio e pietra; copertura piana e a tetto…
A modern fortress in Italy. The central building of the Forte del Sapè, also known as the Batteria Bassa. Such structures were part of a wider network…
Perched at the highest point of the old town, the Castello Caetani sits within the most ancient ring of walls, of which substantial traces remain. The…
A Norman fortress in Meldola, Italy. This type of site typically served as a defensive stronghold and administrative centre during the medieval period…
A medieval fortress in Italy, the Castello dei Doria di Genova is a fortified structure associated with the powerful Doria family. It belongs to a per…
This is a church that keeps its secrets close. Lacking a main façade, the Chiesa di San Sebastiano is absorbed into the surrounding buildings, reveali…
Castello di Guiglia is a fortress in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. It stands on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Panaro valley. Fortresses of t…
This is a fortress, then, though one that has settled into the life of the town around it. Casa Lucenteforte is built of local limestone, its walls la…
Complesso monumentale realizzato in muratura di tufo, pietra naturale e laterizio…
The Castello Aleramico faces onto the empty space of Piazza Garibaldi, its original features still discernible despite centuries of alteration. The fa…
On the promontory where the Greek colony of Elea once stood, later known as Velia, the medieval fortified village of Castellammare della Bruca was bui…
High on the mountain that overlooks the medieval village of Pescina, the Oppidum di Rocca Vecchia is one of the most important fortified centres of th…
Rocca Malatestiana is a fortress in Italy. It is a medieval defensive structure typical of the region's fortified architecture.…
The Castello Visconteo is a fortress of irregular, mixed-plan design, its rectangular core flanked by two towers: a semicircular one to the west and a…
At the top of a steep hill, the Rocca Estense di Trassilico commands a 360-degree view: from the Serchio valley and the northern Apennines down to the…
Castello di Casalecchio is a Norman fortress in Italy. It belongs to a period when such strongholds were built across the region for military control …
On a rocky spur three kilometres from the Adriatic highway, this fortress once formed the fortified heart of a small settlement. Its vertical bearing …
Castello Della Monica is a modern fortress in Teramo, Italy. This type of site typically reflects 19th-century revivalist architecture, often built as…
This is a church built like a fortress: a sturdy rectangle of stone and brick, ending in a polygonal apse. The main hall and apse are covered by barre…
This is a fortress-palace built to command, not to charm. Its load-bearing masonry walls, a pragmatic mix of exposed stone and brick, speak of solidit…
A formidable, three-storey palazzo that began life as a noble residence in the eighteenth century, Palazzo Bonfranceschi stands within the historic ce…
A fortress in the town of Soncino, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. Fortifications of this period in this part of Italy were often built as s…
This is a church built as a fortress, a stout, defensive statement of faith in stone. The main body is a single, rectangular hall, terminated not by a…
At the Lanza Branciforte principi di Trabia, history is built into the very fabric. This fortress, a product of the modern period in Italy, reveals it…
The Castello Normanno-Svevo in Gioia del Colle is a Norman castle in the historic centre, built by the Normans in the 12th century on earlier Byzantin…
At first glance, this fortress appears more as a church than a stronghold. Its rectangular plan and three aisles, each terminating in a semicircular a…
A Byzantine fortress in Italy, known as the Castello di Malconsiglio. Its catacombe are underground burial chambers. Byzantine fortifications in Italy…
At Rocca Imperiale, the medieval hilltop is folded tight beneath the vast outline of a Frederickian fortress. The castle was the original pole of urba…
On a low spur above the Apulian plain, this Norman-Swabian castle keeps an angular, watchful silhouette. Its irregular polygonal plan encloses a centr…
On a rocky spur above the Borgo di Pianetto, the ruins of Il Castello di Pianetto are what remain of a once-formidable fortress. The site is now a col…
A fortress in Italy. Its walls and towers stand as a reminder of medieval military architecture in the region.…
La rocca di Montescudo si compone di un nucleo al centro dell’abitato (Via della Rocca, Piazza del Municipio) dove si trova un bastione poligonale in …
Castello Lambertini is a fortress in Italy. It belongs to a class of fortified structures common across the Italian landscape, often built for defence…
The Castello di Maredolce, also known as the Favara Palace, is a medieval building in Palermo. In the Siculo-Norman age it served as one of the ‘Solat…
A fortress built of tufa, rising from the summit of a hill, its polygonal plan enclosing a single courtyard. The entire perimeter of the walls is cove…
A military storehouse within Forte Bramafam, a fortress of the modern period in Italy. Such structures were built for the storage of artillery and mun…
A lone ruin stands in a meadow at the valley floor, unreachable by road or path. This medieval fortress, now a skeleton of its former self, rises from…
Perched on the rocky remnants of a once-formidable Norman fortress, this sanctuary is a palimpsest of stone and faith. The original stronghold, Rocca …
A fortress in Italy. The Castello D'Evoli is a fortified structure typical of the region's defensive architecture.…
A Renaissance fortress in Italy. Castello dei Carafa is a fortified structure typical of its period, built for defence and to project the power of its…
A Norman fortress in Italy. It is a fortified structure typical of the period, built for defence and territorial control.…
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