MONTECARLO - THE CERRUGLIO FORTRESS
On OUR CAR OF THE TIME of 06/05/2010
In the summer period of opening to the public it is possible to also visit her Fortitude of the Cerruglio note as Fortitude of Montecarlo. And' thanks to the numerous jobs of restauration and maintenance realized in the full respect of the historical value of the structure, brought ahead by the family Pardocchi - Menchini that it is owner of it from about one century, that can bathe in once and a dimension distant and full of charm.
It will be this the abode that will entertain the next show Art To the Castle - Gift for the life, in calendar in June 2010.
Already around the year 1100 existed the Fortress of the Cerruglio constituted from two towers to square plant - of the apparition and of Santa Barbara - and from a principal tower of form semicircolare, said "mastio." The three united elements from curtains form today still a thick and imposing triangular structure.
A documentation doesn't exist to confirmation of this date, but skimming through various documents seems really that in 1329, eight hundred German riders, deserters of the armed with Ludovico the Bavaro, established him note in the Fortress of the Cerruglio - as it had called to the epoch the initial military complex.
Around the year 1331 the king Giovanni of Boemia with his child Charles (the future Charles IV crowned emperor of the Germanic empire in the 1346) the Florentines sent away from the city and from the surrounding countries; it will be then really Charles IV of Boemia that will make to restore and to widen the Cerruglio, from the rests of Vivinaia, by now completely destroyed. A new suburb was built, to which the name of Mons Karoli was given, Charles' Mountain.
In the years to follow many they were the jobs of amplification up to that in the century XVI Cosimo de' Physicians it made to erect today still the imposing complex of bastions and Florentine bows visible.
The whole the Fortitude of Montecarlo represents, today, a good example of military construction with representative elements both of the medieval epoch that of those following thin to reach Nine hundred the first
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