Castello De' Monti Corigliano d'Otranto (Lecce) represents, in the words of G. Bacile di Castiglione, the "most beautiful monument of military and feudal architecture of the beginning of the sixteenth century in Land of Otranto", and is certainly the most completed the transition from square to round towers: in fact, the castle has a quadrangular layout with four corner towers with an escarpment base and three levels of fire, surrounded by a deep moat.
Of medieval layout, the castle was radically restructured and enlarged between the end of the 1490s and the beginning of the 16th century (1515-19) by Giovan Battista de' Monti, who adapted it to war requirements and the principles of the military art of the time using of local workers.
De’ Monti Castel
Address: Piazza Castello, 1, 73022 Corigliano D'otranto (Lecce,) Italia
Phone: 351 913 7972
Site:
http://www.ilcastellovolante.it/Location inserted by
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