Fortress
Fortezza Medicea
🇮🇹 Italy · 16th century
Siena’s Fortezza Medicea (the Medici Fortress sometimes called the Fort of Saint Barbara) is a fort built in the city between 1561 and 1563 on the orders of Duke Cosimo, a few years before he became the first Grand Duke of Tuscany.
The fortress is positioned on the northern edge of the central Siena in the Terzo of Camollia, next to the neighborhood of San Prospero, and since 1923 has overlooked the city's Artemio Franchi/Montepaschi Arena.
Text adapted from “Fortezza Medicea (Siena)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fortezza Medicea ranks #2,512 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #216 of the 288 mapped in Italy. Founded 1561, it is older than 41% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 307 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
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