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THE
FORTRESS GONZAGA rises on the necks to the west of
the city, represented a bastion against the threat on those
depositor of attacks and invasions that could hit Messina to
the shoulders from the tirrenica coast through the Peloritani.
They were covered of ancient ways that favored the
communications and, therefore, the possibility of attacks.
Strongly Gonzaga and Castellaccio or Forte Orione, a this last
fortified structure ancient, exactly rise to the term of one
these ways mount some and, covering exactly the way
Noviziato-Casazza it was arrived just to walls of the
Novitiate. On the depositor north there was the natural artery
of the Giostra, fortresses were not constructed because
evidently the Giostra could be watched from the high of the
Cappuccini and the artilleries posizionate in the fortress of
Roccaguelfonia and the bastion of the Andria came considered
sufficient defense. The Strong Gonzaga came made to construct
from the Viceré Shoeing Don Gonzaga in 1540. The planning is
attributed to Ferramolino and Maurolico. It rises to a height
of 160 meters on the sea level and it is introduced to
irregular stellar plant with six bastions, of which four to
acute angle that they follow the uneven conformation of the
ground.
The
perimeter of the Fort is encircled from ditches, famous one
guardiola from which it is sighted goes it them of the Camaro.
The external part is characterized from the bastions with
chines is covered of limestone blocks with a semicircular
section that concludes them. The trabeation door is that one
originates them, much simple one, deprives of whichever
decoration of it documents the formulation of the plans of the
Ferramolino. Over the famous door a window with architrave to
semicircle, rifle-fire emplacements reinforce the door to sides;
in the high part there are then two circular holes from which
slid the chains that set in action the draw-bridge.
To the inside widths are
opened rooms, from a portal of income, through a smaller room are
approached, covering one tightened corridor, to feed of two tight
and low galleries, with ceilings to botte, than they are circulated
for all the perimeter of walls and that, in some points, they are
increased as well as to form of the rooms that came used like
warehouses. From an inner staircase placed to the center of the main body,
is approached the Association of Bologna and the terrace. The rooms
of the foreground appear wide with the ceilings to barrel vault, two are situated in the east side show oneself with console
balconies, an other, situated to the west, admits on an external
shelf where a perron to wide steps leads to the terrace. Here
small eighteenth century nail head to aisle only rises one with a
much altered prospect and in which they are visible the rests
of the portal it originates them to arc surmounted from a window
oval to whose right is placed a marmorea plate of 1753 in which the
Viceré Laviefuille it perceives that the nail head does not enjoy
the asylum right.
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From an
adjacent perron they to the terrace knows itself
advanced on the chines of which there are two turrets of
guard. The Strong Gonzaga conserve almost intact the
structures of the XVI century but modest
participations in the 1700, the 1800 and during the
second world war. Two eighteenth century balconies have
been constructed pillars to support of the bastions with
to other added small which that are opened in the
bastion. |
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