Filarete Tower

Alex Iacobita

2 months ago

The tower is also the main entrance on the castle grounds. It’s quite impressive and in very good condition. Not sure if you can climb to the top of the tower to get a good view of the city.

elham parsaei

2 weeks ago

The Castello Sforzesco (Italian for "Sforza's Castle") is a medieval fortification,It was built in the 15th century by Duke of Milan, on the remnants of a 14th-century fortification. 🏯 worth to visit

Elias

5 months ago

Torre del Filarete is a beautiful building, very beautiful sight. A beautiful and impressive fortress in Milan, which you can enter from different and all free of charge. Parking is difficult to find at the fortress or in the surrounding area.

Isa Gama - Reconexão com a Natureza

a year ago

Filarete was an important architect during the renaissance. He projected this beautiful tower as well as the Ca' Granda building. He also wrote a book called "Sforzinda" (recalling the name of Sforza Castle), suggesting a plan for the ideal of city (actually, the map of renaissance Milan you find in a panel in front of this tower is based on his ideal of a city). It was an utopical city, much based on the model of ancient Athens city. Filarete was actively involved in the discussion about the "Vitruvian Man" with Francesco di Giorgio and Leonardo da Vinci. The riddle proposed by Vitruvio a 1000 years earlier, was to discover how to fit a man into a square and a circle at the same time. Only Leonardo accomplished the feat in a brilliant way. All of these architects believed that man was a microcosmo of the macrocosmo, so all the buildings should derive from its shape, limbs and measures. By the way, I am a researcher of renaissance and Leonardo da Vinci, if you would like to know Milan through these lens you can find in airbnb experiences

Anri Erinin

4 years ago

Quote: The Bona Tower On the 26th December 1476, the Lord of Milan, Galeazzo Maria Sforza, son of Francesco Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti, fell victim to a plot and was stabbed to death, causing his wife Bona di Savoia, to move to the safest place within the castle and further fortify it with the addition of a tall tower. The Bona Tower, at the intersection of the north-east and south-east wings allowed for control of the entire building. In addition to a defensive function, the tower was also used as a prison, as is testified to by a door equipped with a spy-hole, which can still be seen today in the stairwell. Damaged by ensuing foreign dominations, the tower was finally restored as part of the works initiated in 1893 by Luca Beltrami, who also raised it and added battlements.