Visconti-Sforza Castle
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Contact Visconti-Sforza Castle
| Address : | Piazza Ducale, 20, 27029 Vigevano PV, Italy |
| Phone : | 📞 +999 |
| Postal code : | 27029 |
| Website : | http://www.visitvigevano.it/ |
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| City : | Vigevano |
| Description : | Intricate 15th-century castle featuring brick tunnels, a Leonardo da Vinci museum & a lively square. |
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João Sousa on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Calm and beautiful place, perfect to relax and admire his beautiful architecture.
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Kieran Noorani - Smith on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ didn't go inside but very pretty.
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MARIKA VAPHIADIS on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Very nice
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Jakub Fajfer on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Great pizza, not big but very varied, interestingly mixed, tasty. Very friendly, helpful staff. Not too much place inside but thanks to that more cosy. Near to Pallazo Sforza and Piazza Ducale. Could be problem with parking but not more than in other Italian old towns.
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Kim Floriance on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Historical place with a sign of Leonardo da Vinci. Interesting museums, Piazza Ducale, cozy restaurants.
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Florian Van Impe on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The group of monuments composed of the Piazza Ducale and Visconteo-Sforzesco Castle as seen today, is the result of construction works which lasted over two centuries during the reigns of the Visconti and Sforza in Milan.
This was the period during which Vigevano reached its maximum splendour, becoming the ducal residence and an important commercial centre.
The town developed in a spiral around the castle which is one of the biggest fortified structures in Europe.
Its core dates back to the Longobard era (VII-X century), whilst its transformation into a princely residence was instigated by the Viscontis (in particular Luchino Visconti) and the Sforzas, in particular Ludovico il Moro. Artists such as Bramante, and, it is thought, also Leonardo, contributed to its construction.
Work on the castle was completed between 1492 and 1494. Following the end of the Sforzesca dynasty (1535) the castle passed into Spanish hands and began a slow decline. In 1696 the plenipotentiaries of the European governments, who had assembled to sign a peace treaty for Vigevano declared the castle to be unfit for use and when it became the headquarters of a garrison of the Austrian army at the beginning of the Eighteenth century, radical changes began to take place.
Around the second half of the Nineteenth century it became the barracks of the Sardinian army and later of the Italian Royal Army and remained a military headquarters until 1968.
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Tim Hoy on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Great starters and pizza, good wine and beer. Beautiful evening setting in the central plaza with lots of activity. Eat some great food and watch the locals passing by.
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paoloalberto filio on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Very nice historic site with a beautiful garden and directly connected to the plaza of the Duomo of Vigevano
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