Doria Castle

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Doria Castle - Photo: Park Archive 
 
The Castle has an almost regular pentagonal plan with a bastion in the south, protruding towards the sea altering that way the simple original scheme. From the front doors you can walk into a wide room with a ceiling of barrel vaults of different height. From this room up a  stone staircase you can reach the first rampart over which the "Sala Ipostila" looks: carried out with local materials, it has a cross vaulted ceiling set up on eight middle pillars and six perimetral ones. Above the "Sala Ipostila" there are the "Casa del Capitano" and an amphitheatre used today for concerts and theatre performances. The northern wall of the Castle has large communication trenches with sentry boxes and loopholes used for a conventional defence with archibugios and other weapons apt to reject besiegers. The access to the communication trench used by patrols is possible through a side terrace close to the sea; the trench itself starts from north west and is made of two stretches having as an apex a large massive tower with a circular base and a sentinel box.