, an arch
supporting a square tower (on whose walls hanged the coat-of-arms of the
Montefeltros, the Sforzas and the Malatestas) provided by a draw-bridge.
The castle
is placed on the highest and more easily defensible hill.
The donjon, (Mastio) around the main keep,
helps to confer the fortress the idea of strenght and elegance at the same
time, typical of the medieval fortresses.
The Mastio dates back to 1150 and the wings
of the castle were built around it on a later time. The interior of the
castle underwent radical changes in the course of the passage from a fort
to a residential palace.
Of the works of arts there to embellish it,
only the
The whole perimeter of the walls were run by