Castel San Pietro Romano. Fortress of Colonna

Castel San Pietro Romano. Fortress of Colonna

The Colonna Rocca (Fortress) of Castel San Pietro Romano, now abandoned, has its origins in the tenth century and consists of a square building with square towers at the top.

At the centre of this building is a cylindrical bastion traditionally used as a prison.

In its prisons they important figures were kept such as Jacopone da Todi (who composed poetry) and San Berardo dei Marsi and Conradin of Swabia (1268).


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Benedicta Lee

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