🏰 City Fortress of Palmanova
Nine-pointed star fort and UNESCO World Heritage site in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
📌 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 2017 as part of "Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries"
- Commissioned by the Republic of Venice in 1593; designed by Giulio Savorgnan
- Located in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northeastern Italy, near the Slovenian and Croatian borders
- Nine-pointed star-shaped fortification with three concentric rings of defensive walls
Palmanova is a fortress city built by the Republic of Venice in the 1590s as a strategic defense ...