Fortezza Medicea

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.

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Fortezza Medicea ranks #2714 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #216 of the 350 mapped in Italia. Fundado en 1561, más antiguo que el 42% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 495 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XVI. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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