Walls of Charles V and Porta Uzeda
The Walls of Charles V were a wall complex that was built in Catania by the emperor Charles V in the sixteenth century to defend the city: they consisted of eleven bastions and had seven access gates to the city.
The walls completely enclosed the city of the time, damaged by the eruption of Etna in 1669, by the earthquake of 1693 following the urban renewal of the eighteenth century. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the Duke of Camastra had an opening of 1672 widened, that is the one close to the Piazza del Duomo, by having the door dedicated to the viceroy duke of Uzeda built. Conspicuous traces of the fortress system still remain.
Card insertion: Ignatius Caloggero
Photo: Ignazio Caloggero
Information contributions: Ignazio Caloggero, Web
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