Famous castles and palaces of Italy . ittle lake-side town. We pass through a secondgate, over which are displayed Orsini roses, andwalk along the north front, surveying the wide ex-panse of lake, with distant glimpses of Soracte and theSabine hills. The entrance to the main building is atthe foot of a fine tower at the north-east it we read the words: Napoleone della genteOrsina mi fondo. Respingo i colpevoli, difendo i the right of the portal is a little chapel; oppositeanother door leads to a winding stair, admitting to thefirst floor. This part of the fabric is certain
Famous castles and palaces of Italy . ittle lake-side town. We pass through a secondgate, over which are displayed Orsini roses, andwalk along the north front, surveying the wide ex-panse of lake, with distant glimpses of Soracte and theSabine hills. The entrance to the main building is atthe foot of a fine tower at the north-east it we read the words: Napoleone della genteOrsina mi fondo. Respingo i colpevoli, difendo i the right of the portal is a little chapel; oppositeanother door leads to a winding stair, admitting to thefirst floor. This part of the fabric is certainly olderthan 1470, and no doubt existed in the precedingcentury. On this side, facing the water, the castle hastaken deep root in the rock, and under the curtain wallruns a long series of cellars and vaults used, in allprobability, indifferently as storerooms and can, however, be no doubt as to the purpose ofone of them: it is a circular cell, entered only through THE CASTLE OF BRACCIANO. FROM A PAINTING^ BY E. BRACCIANO AND SPOLETO 65 a trap-door above^ and with the remains of blades pro-jecting outwards and upwards from its walls. From near the entrance to these dark cavernouschambers a brick ramp conducts you to the first rooms are distributed round the inner court, whichforms an irregular triangle. You reach it at the north-west angle by a handsome staircase of the ascendingand descending pattern. The capitals of the doublegallery surrounding the court are all engraved with thefamily arms. On the south-east side is all that remainsof the old rocca. The master tower was demolished inthe seventeenth century, but the lowest storey remains,and is used as a storeroom. On each side of the dooris a cell that looks Hke a dungeon. One of these iscalled the fo%%o or well, and prisoners were forced downinto it by a wooden ladder. The halls and smallerchambers of the castle are decorated with reliefs andmural paintings after the Italian style, but of t
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