Places to see in ( Ostuni - Italy ) Piazza della Liberta

Places to see in ( Ostuni - Italy ) Piazza della Liberta

The consolidation and restoration of the medieval walls of Ostuni and the palimpsests that have taken place over the centuries, has given rise to a problem of large scale represented by the protection of minute historical evidence, such as mortar and lime layers, entirely erased on a stretch of Viale Oronzo forty-one kilometer long. The historical events related to the construction of the ancient walls of Ostuni refer to the messapi, the Byzantines, the Normans, the Angevins and the Aragonese. The latter, probably after the earthquake of 1456, reinforced the curtains and towers of the previous period and extended the defensive perimeter towards noon.

The Aragonese walls that encircled Ostuni along the stretch located to the southwest were in fact built in the late fifteenth century and in the first years of the sixteenth century on a project drawn up by trusted architects of King Alfonso of Aragon. They incorporated the village called Croce delle Palme, the convent of the conventual Franciscans, the church of Ognissanti and numerous other buildings. In the new stretch of walls two important city gates were opened: one was called Porta San Francesco, near the convent of the convent, or port of Iuso, and the other took the name of Porta del Ponte, bordered on the sides by two imposing towers with a drawbridge in the middle. The main tower has recently been brought to light by the Archaeological Superintendency, engaged in carrying out a campaign of excavations on the entire area of ​​Piazza della Libertà.

The walls and the Aragonese towers were surrounded by deep ditches and to defend them there were troops that housed in the military quarter, built at the end of the sixteenth century, which housed a cavalry and an infantry corps. The imposing city defense system began to be dismantled from the early decades of the eighteenth century, when the population increase and the increased need for new building land, determined an impetuous urban growth most felt in the second half of the century.

To increase the income and to face the "universal weights", that is to say taxes, the city administrators began the massive division of the walls and the ancient ditches, provoking for the most part the demolition of the old defensive structures and the incorporation of the same in new buildings. On October 9, 1724, in the presence of the mayor of that year, the magnificent Antonio Anglani, and the elect, Mr. Francesco Ayroldi and Mr. Nicola Maria Antelmi, were sold to private citizens almost all the land along the line of the ancient walls that ran from the Porta del Ponte to the Lopez y Rojo palace.

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