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Tor San Michele, tourist spot of Ostia
Tor S. Michele, the male will literally belonged to the coastal defense system built by Pius IV and Pius V to ensure safe navigation. The Tower was designed by Michelangelo, was completed during the pontificate of Pius V, under the direction of John Lippi replace 'Michelangelo after his death. The diagonal tower-shaped, surrounded by a moat, has a height of 18 meters.
The blockhouse is built entirely 'on three floors each with eight rooms covered with vault; materials were kept in the basement of artillery on the ground floor was the guards and housing for men on the first floor was housing commanders. Of the structure on the terrace, surrounded by a massive overhanging eaves supported by brackets in masonry, which hosts the parade. On the ledge eight watchtowers or bartizans "protecting the lookouts. The particularity 'of the tower can be seen in its terrace has a slanted floor to facilitate movement of incendiary projectiles and a circular aperture with a diameter of eight meters. In 1930 the tower was restored and opened on this occasion on the outer walls of windows. Used as a lighthouse, occupied during World War II by the Germans and then by the Americans. In 1892 he joined the artistic property on behalf of the Archaeological Superintendence of Ostia Antica. From 1994 and 'passed over the Superintendency for Environmental and Architectural Heritage of Rome. Tor S. Michele inserted into the sheet 1082 of the New Urban and Building Cadastre 'Domain of a property interest under the important Law 1089/39, on the protection of things of historical and artistic interest.
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Tor San Michele, tourist spot of Ostia
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Tor S. Michele, the male will literally belonged to the coastal defense system built by Pius IV and Pius V to ensure safe navigation. The Tower was designed by Michelangelo, was completed during the pontificate of Pius V, under the direction of John Lippi replace 'Michelangelo after his death. The diagonal tower-shaped, surrounded by a moat, has a height of 18 meters. The blockhouse is built entirely 'on three floors each with eight rooms covered with vault; materials were kept in the basement of artillery on the ground floor was the guards and housing for men on the first floor was housing commanders. Of the structure on the terrace, surrounded by a massive overhanging eaves supported by brackets in masonry, which hosts the parade. On the ledge eight watchtowers or bartizans "protecting the lookouts. The particularity 'of the tower can be seen in its terrace has a slanted floor to facilitate movement of incendiary projectiles and a circular aperture with a diameter of eight meters. In 1930 the tower was restored and opened on this occasion on the outer walls of windows. Used as a lighthouse, occupied during World War II by the Germans and then by the Americans. In 1892 he joined the artistic property on behalf of the Archaeological Superintendence of Ostia Antica. From 1994 and 'passed over the Superintendency for Environmental and Architectural Heritage of Rome. Tor S. Michele inserted into the sheet 1082 of the New Urban and Building Cadastre 'Domain of a property interest under the important Law 1089/39, on the protection of things of historical and artistic interest.
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