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Torrione Porta Santa Maria - Centro Espositivo Permanente sulla Cultura Medievale e Rinascimentale. Corciano (PG)
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The historical investigation found out that the Tower was built by Lombard workforce (resolution of 8 April 1482) and was built in about thirty years. The building has an water clock shape, necessary to face the innovative firearms developed in the sixteenth century. The basement of the tower is circular and protrudes the city walls.
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The structure is concave, closer in the center and wider at the bottom and top, above the brick bertèche supporting the battlements, due to the fact that the bastion was originally without cover.
The exhibition is on three levels:
Gardens level: the Key Room> the key of the door used until the '60s are exhibited. Photographs of the history of the area until the sixties are also presented.
Street level: Massari Room> original weapons, both defensing and offensive, and military clothing from the XV-XVI, are shown (from the collection of the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria).
High level: Hall of Bertèche> the exhibition contains the 1560 Statute, the code approving the construction of the Tower, the statue of St. Michael Polidoro De Biti Caporali (1551-1553), of San Sebastian (1480 ca. ) and of Our Lady of the Belt.
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