Italy Abruzzi L'Aquila province Lanciano Torri Montanare

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Italy Abruzzi L'Aquila province Lanciano Torri Montanare Opens the doors for various rise to this city, made ​​the taste of the times means, with guards, antímurí, battlements, towers and bridges to draw, in order to prevent any incursion. So in 1790 he wrote the 'Antinori speaking of walls surrounding Lancaster. Today there are only the intact Towers Montanare overlooking the valley which opens towards the Maiella. Were built in the late tenth century when the city expanded with the construction of the new district of Civitanova, to make sure that part of town that ended in the plains. The section along Via Spaventa consists of masonry exterior side view with shoe. To the north, however, the walls consist of a mix of stone and brick, a fact which suggests to be the original structure of all internal medieval tower is rectangular and consists of 3 closed sides and 4, the side facing the inside, so open to preclude their use against the City by the enemy that he could win. In the North-West is situated lower tower projecting outwards, which dates from the fifteenth century.

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