Il castello templare di Peniscola, da fortezza di epoca crociata a cittadella tardo rinascimentale

Abstract

[EN] The project of the digital survey of the fortress and the castle of Peniscola is born from a dual line of research, the study of the fortresses of the Crusader period in the Mediterranean basin and the research on the fortifications designed by Antonelli in the sixteenth and seventeenth century between Mediterrano and the Caribbean. Peniscola, first Greek and then Roman colony, in 718 A. D., it became part of the Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula. These territories were under the control of the Moors until 1233, and between 1294 and 1307, the Knights of the Temple rebuilt the existing Muslim fortress. Important Mediterranean port and land border Peniscola, with the majestic ramparts designed in 1543, by order of Philip II, the engineer Giovanni Battista Antonelli, is also an important example of the new approach to the defense in connection with the expansion of 'use of firearms in the sixteenth century.