Italy · 16th century
The Citadel or Fortress of Ancona is a great Renaissance military work by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, one of the fathers of the Italian-style bastioned front, that is, of artillery-proof fortifications. It stands on the summit of the Astagno hill, in a panoramic position overlooking the city and the port. It is part of the Capodimonte district. In its youth it was known as the Casematte, and that name is still used today.
The Fortress, which covers an area of 13,000 square meters and has a perimeter of about one kilometer, borders on the southeast the Cittadella Park, which takes its name from it. Together with the adjoining entrenched field, the surrounding woods and the cliffs of the Archi and Capodimonte below, it is protected as a landscape asset by the Marche region; the building itself has been declared "of considerable public interest" and "of particular historical and artistic interest."
Machine-translated from “Cittadella di Ancona” on the Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cittadella di Ancona ranks #6,547 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #463 of the 560 mapped in Italy. Founded 1532, it is older than 41% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 891 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
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