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Vigolzone Castle is a medieval castle located in the capital of the Italian municipality of Vigolzone, in the province of Piacenza. The castle is located on the western side of the town, in the southern part of the Po Valley, not far from the first hills of the Ligurian Apennines. The building, built to combine military and residential needs, has a rectangular base with an internal courtyard. Two square-based towers are located at opposite corners of the structure, an element shared with the Bicchignano castle. The largest tower, located on the northern side, served as a keep; 40 m high and equipped with swallow-tailed battlements, it was placed in a dominant position with respect to the drawbridge, originally present and later eliminated, to which it guaranteed protection. The original structure was heavily remodeled, externally and, especially, internally, during the works carried out at the beginning of the twentieth century, which inserted elements of romantic taste including the battlements covered by the roof located on the southern front. Inside, on the ground floor there is the hall where the hearings of the fief tribunal were held, while on the first floor, in the left wing of the building, there is the weapons room, characterised by a wooden ceiling which houses decorative panels depicting the coats of arms of the patrician families who had contracted kinship ties with the Anguissola of Vigolzone through marriage. According to some studies, in the room there was a fireplace resting on thin columns decorated with the symbols of the Anguissola, Visconti and Fontana families. On the same floor there was the theatre, housed in a 400 m² room, and destroyed by a fire in 1860.
Vigolzone Castle is a medieval castle located in the capital of the Italian municipality of Vigolzone, in the province of Piacenza. The castle is located on the western side of the town, in the southern part of the Po Valley, not far from the first hills of the Ligurian Apennines. The building, built to combine military and residential needs, has a rectangular base with an internal courtyard. Two square-based towers are located at opposite corners of the structure, an element shared with the Bicchignano castle. The largest tower, located on the northern side, served as a keep; 40 m high and equipped with swallow-tailed battlements, it was placed in a dominant position with respect to the drawbridge, originally present and later eliminated, to which it guaranteed protection. The original structure was heavily remodeled, externally and, especially, internally, during the works carried out at the beginning of the twentieth century, which inserted elements of romantic taste including the battlements covered by the roof located on the southern front. Inside, on the ground floor there is the hall where the hearings of the fief tribunal were held, while on the first floor, in the left wing of the building, there is the weapons room, characterised by a wooden ceiling which houses decorative panels depicting the coats of arms of the patrician families who had contracted kinship ties with the Anguissola of Vigolzone through marriage. According to some studies, in the room there was a fireplace resting on thin columns decorated with the symbols of the Anguissola, Visconti and Fontana families. On the same floor there was the theatre, housed in a 400 m² room, and destroyed by a fire in 1860.
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The first municipality in the Veneto region by surface area and second by population after Verona, it includes both island and mainland territories and is structured around the two main centres of Venice (in the centre of the lagoon of the same name) and Mestre (on the mainland). It is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities. The city was the capital of the Serenissima Republic of Venice for 1,100 years and is known in this regard as the Serenissima, the Dominant and the Queen of the Adriatic: for its urban peculiarities and its artistic heritage, it is universally considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world, declared, together with its lagoon, a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, which has contributed to making it the second Italian city after Rome with the highest tourist flow. Between the 10th and 16th centuries it was one of the greatest naval and mercantile powers in the Mediterranean, with interests in particular towards the East. Together with Cannes and Berlin, it is considered one of the capitals of European cinema, thanks to the International Film Festival.")
