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DISCOVERING
THE Cities:
BASTIONS AND FORTIFICATIONS
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Churches
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first suggestive itinerary to discover Grosseto goes to the
fortifications which were raised to defend the Cities's strategic
location. The walls that enclose the old town are, without any
doubt, the most characteristic site of Grosseto. The building
of the boundary wall started in 1574 on the will of Francesco
I de' Medici and was completed in 1593 under Ferdinand I. The
boundary wall has a hexagonal shape and is provided with six
impressive bastions. The walls and the bastions were transformed
into public garden for the inhabitants in the 19th century as
there was no longer any need for a strategic and defensive fortifications.
The visitor can still see the Baluardo della Fortezza, built
in the 16th century by the Medici family, and the Bastions of
Santa Lucia and Vittoria, built to fortify the town even more.
If you walk along the walls you are able to see all the other
Bastions, called Maiano, Cavallerizza, del Molino a vento (which
has some nice gardens), Rimembranza and Garibaldi. |
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