Rocca Sanvitale Or Castello Di Fontanellato, Emilia Romagna. ItalynThe Rocca Sanvitale is an imposing fortress built in the fourteenth century on a pre-existing building of the twelfth century. Subjected to numerous restorations, over the centuries it has been transformed from a defensive fortress to the residence of the noble Conti Sanvitale who then lived there for about six centuries.nIt has a square plan with crenellated walls and four corner towers and is still surrounded by a wide moat fed once by the water produced by a resurgence and rearranged at the beginning of the seventeenth century by the Parma architect Smeraldo Smeraldi; the entrance to the inner courtyard is via a drawbridge.nIn 1948 the last Count ceded the Fortress with its furnishings to the Municipality, which subsequently transformed it into a museum.
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