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The Fortress of San Leo

The Fortress of San Leo, also known as the fortress of San Leo is located in the province of Rimini. Located at the highest point of a rocky peak bordered by imposing vertical walls, the fortress represents the main architectural emergence of the entire village of San Leo. The origins of the fortified town are certainly pre-Christian, even if the first documented news of a real settlement is linked to the presence of the saint Leo between the 4th and 5th centuries. The remarkable strategic position made San Leo a disputed place throughout the early Middle Ages: from the Goths to the Byzantines, passing through the Lombards (Desiderio built the first defensive garrison in masonry) up to the domination of the Church, attested from the mid-eighth to a good part of the 10th century. Used for a long time as a prison - the story of the Count of Cagliostro, imprisoned here between 1791 and 1795 is very well known - the fortress will finally be used as a military barracks until 1915. Today the fortress, cleaned of the nineteenth-century superstructures that have altered its Renaissance lines, has returned to its architectural splendor which makes it one of the most celebrated testimonies of military art, in a setting of history and art among the most beautiful in Italy.

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Via Giacomo Leopardi
47865 Rimini

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