Castello Di Lerici in Lerici, La Spezia, Italy | Castle

The Castle verges on the top of a mountain of rocks that closes to south of the bay of Lerici. It has a irregular plant of poligonal shape and is fortified externally by a curtain of walls truly imposing dominating to the east from the massive size of the pentagonal tower.
Land origins of the Castle and the country of Lerici are still object of surveying and historical argument. It is believed that the lived one of Lerici goes back to the time of the etruschi, and that the bay has been important port of call in roman age, in which the cape that dominates taken it the name of "Mons Ilicis".
The Castle of Lerici is one of the more imposing and interesting existing fortifications in the arc of the from Liguria gulf. Its grey and majestic mass erge on the full of rocks cape that delimits the insenatura Lericina, risaltando in the splendid surrounding landscape, that it characterizes in unmistakable way.
In the part towards the opened sea, its walls strapiombano on cliffs, while to mount, the high pentagonal tower stands out to dominate the lived one to the below cove. To the Castle she can herself be arrived from Garibaldi Public square, covering Via Zanelli and the grips ways of the old village, or with the elevator, situated in one gallery in the vicinities of the Descent.