New episode of the collection of photos taken from the windows of Mayors.
Yesterday was the turn of Caprarola, a town of 5,676 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, Italy.
Caprarola is located in the southern slopes of the Cimini Mountains east of Lake Vico, perched on a tufa is placed between the consular roads, hours highways, Cassia and Flaminia.
Caprarola is famous for its large production of hazelnuts and the Palazzo Farnese.
is of the latter, one of the most important buildings of the Renaissance-Mannerist. It was built in the sixteenth century to a design by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola on the basis of an earlier fortification on a pentagonal plan designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, whose Vignola kept the outer perimeter. The first task was entrusted to design the card. Alessandro Farnese, Sangallo, but soon realized the pentagonal base with 5 angular bastions, the work was suspended because the cardinal was elected Pope Paul III. He was the grandson Alessandro juniore a riprendere i lavori affidando la realizzazione al Vignola il quale convertì l'austero progetto di una fortezza in una meravigliosa villa pentagonale a cui lavorarono i nomi più illustri di quel periodo.
Oggi è stata la volta di Mombaroccio, un comune di 2.153 abitanti della provincia di Pesaro e Urbino, nelle Marche.
Il periodo Malatestiano, tra il XII ed il XIII sec, segnò profondamente l'assetto urbano di Mombaroccio con la costruzione delle mura fortificate esterne all'abitato, che ancora oggi si presentano in gran parte ben conservate, ed alle quali appartiene il nucleo più antico della splendida Porta Maggiore.
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