The profile of the fortress that joins the steep wall ... a unique spectacle with the Pisan mountains in the background. the fortress of Caprona is a destination absolutely to …
This is the Rocca del Brunelleschi, commissioned to the architect Filippo Brunelleschi after the village besieged for eight months by the Florentines, had been definitively conquered by them against the …
The tower is part of the city wall and probably derives its name from the Lombard = catana (small ditch). There was a moat here that once additionally secured the Plazza del Duomo from intruders.
A small town placed on the foot of Mount Pisano, it's know for its fortress. The fortress built in the 1435 on a project of Filippo Brunelleschi at the behest of the Florentine goverment.