The Fortress of Santa Barbara is a fourteenth-century urban castle built from 1331 to house troops guarding the Tuscan city of Pistoia after the Florentine Republic's victory over Castruccio Castracani. It was expanded in 1531 under the design of Nanni Unghero and again under Cosimo I de' Medici, when Giovanni Battista Belluci and Bernardo Buontalenti added a perimeter wall linking it to the city's other defenses; it later served as a barracks and then a jail before restoration began in 1970. Today the fortress grounds are parkland with surviving ramparts, and its chapel retains Baroque frescoes. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Fortress of Santa Barbara (Fortezza di Santa Barbara) is a 14th-century urban castle erected to house troops guarding the town of Pistoia, in the region of Tuscany, Italy.
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The Fortress of Santa Barbara (Fortezza di Santa Barbara) is a 14th-century urban castle erected to house troops guarding the town of Pistoia, in the region of Tuscany, Italy. While it is suggested that initially the fortress was named after a nearby church of Saint Barnabas, however, Saint Barbara is the patron saint of artillerymen.
The initial fortress was erected in 1331, after the Florentine
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The Fortress of Santa Barbara (Fortezza di Santa Barbara) is a 14th-century urban castle erected to house troops guarding the town of Pistoia, in the region of Tuscany, Italy. While it is suggested that initially the fortress was named after a nearby church of Saint Barnabas, however, Saint Barbara is the patron saint of artillerymen.
The initial fortress was erected in 1331, after the Florentine
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The Fortress of Santa Barbara (Fortezza di Santa Barbara) is a 14th-century urban castle erected to house troops guarding the town of Pistoia, in the region of Tuscany, Italy. While it is suggested that initially the fortress was named after a nearby church of Saint Barnabas, however, Saint Barbara is the patron saint of artillerymen.
The initial fortress was erected in 1331, after the Florentine
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Wikidata item Q3748713, property P131/P17 (location): Pistoia, Italy
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