Marostica Italy medieval fortress


Anciently the Roman they built up, on the top of the Pausolino, a fortification that came subsequently used in medioevale age. In the 1262 it is documented, in fact, the existence on this hill of a tower " tribus spondis".Cangrande della Scala (1312 and following years) made to build up, on this preexisting tower, the Advanced Castle, than, of square shape, it had to sides four small tower and a great tower in the the castle, that it was center of the veneziano podestà until the war of Cambrai (1509-1510), was equipped, being to how much it hands on to us in its " written by hand of Marostica ", Giò Paul Matteazzi, beyond that of a great sink, still visible in the wide inner courtyard, of one church and a flour


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Location: Marostica - Vicenza - Italy
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