City Walls
House Note City Walls: The walls of the House, has long left to decay will return to their former glory thanks to a cleanup project by the municipality that intends to remove pigeons and shrubs, as well as recover the Peak Tower on Pelosini-Vito, long been abandoned. Farmhouse is an old fortified village in the traditional system of late medieval villages francs. The walls built in 1293 still surrounds and protects the town. In the fourteenth century the structure was modified and strengthened. In 1385 there was an increase of the wall through the adoption of a Continuous Ghibellines style battlements and the breakdown of the outer perimeter of the walls between the 12 towers, built of brick except in defense of the two gates in the city who were pentagonal and exceeded the height of 4 meters mura.Avvenne also the opening of the Parade Ground in the south-west of the village, where he also built the fortress, in a location close to Pisa, from which depended House. The archer of brick, the areas where they were at the soldiers during the fighting, so at regular intervals about two feet off the ground. The fabric wall shows the different phases characterized by the use of different materials: the warts for the first band, mixed material for the second and third band. The skeleton was not made in rows with a lot but the masonry stones not finished. He concluded the walls with a walkway jutting internally and with square battlements flat brick. Later period are the loopholes used for the double recessed bomber. A large moat surrounded the entire perimeter wall, and were the only two gates placed on today's Corso Matteotti: Porta Fiorentina and Porta Pisana, both demolished after 1889. The wall is now fragmented due to the urban transformations that occurred between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when it was provided to demolition, thus the affirmation of the furniture.Fonte: Pisaonline.it © APT Pisa
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