Castle SforzescoTo milan the Castle Sforzesco was originally built as a strong by Galeazzo II in 1368 for defensive, but lost reasons the original intentions as a residence was ended for the rulers. Almost one hundred years later, in 1450, when the new Duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza taken the kingdom, the castle was transformed to its original role as Strong adding three towers.
After sometime the Castle Sforzesco it became later one of the most luxurious courts of the Italian Renaissance in the period of Ludovico il Moro. It became as an attraction for the most important artists of this period. The great Leonardo Da Vinci it painted the "Sala delle Asse" and Bramante completed the "Cortile of the Rocchetta" and "Ponticella." The façade of the Castle Sforzesco he is dominated from the tower called of the Filarete where he enters the Plaza of weapons, that guards the rests of the ancient demolished constructions. On I break down it, the tower of Bona of Savoia, the Rocchetta in the left part, was the place where the castellani withdrew him in the moments of danger. Surrounded on three sides by a parvis, the Rocchetta it guards the room of the treasure, with the famous one "Argo" painted by the Bramante. The Ducal Court, constituted by a to follow him of salt richly and decorated it was the usual residence of the castellani to remember it "Sala della Asse", one of the Milanese works attributed to Leonardo.
In our modern times the Castle Sforzesco has become an important cultural center with exposures to the public of museums and organization of demonstrations generally. |
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Around the period
of the XVI century the Castle Sforzesco it decayed and conquered by French becoming
again a tool of defense. The Spaniards built a modern system of bastions in her
form of a star and the rooms were decorated. During the French domination of
Napoleone among 1796 - 1814, the fortifications built by the Spaniard were destroyed.
The Castle was taken and saved by Vittorio Emanuele II in the XVIII century that with the hand of the famous architect
Luca Beltrami, reconstructed again the castle in the original model.