The Walls of Ferrara are 9km of fortifications on an almost triangular layout that surround the city in the Este area. Built in the Middle Ages and restructured between the 15th and 16th century, they originally extended 13 km. The northern walls were mostly built between 1493 and 1505 as part of the Addizione Erculea (Erculean Addition) designed by Biagio Rossetti.
The walls feature small semi-circular towers and a long walkway for guard patrol. To the north west is the torrione del Barco, a significant example of military architecture marking the transition between the 1400s and the 1500s. To the north is the porta degli Angeli with the torrione di San Giovanni to the east, whose circular structure is typical of Renaissance architecture. A statue of Giorgio de Chirico stands in the nearby square today.
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