With a moat and drawbridges in case the peasants get uppity.
Italian Pentagon
Another interesting historical settlement from the ever surprising Italy.
Ah yes, the pentagon
The power and grandiosity of royals never cease to amaze.
The real pentagon
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Nice Pentagon
Looks like a long snake with a cobra head, similar to the style of the vatican lol
Reminds me the pentagonal version of [Charles V palace](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uIrr7kV7cpY/UzG-hj-_eOI/AAAAAAAAA6E/9_BrGmiZby0/s1600/corazonsalvaje.mforos.JPG) inside the Alhambra in Granada, also with a circular patio inside. It seems that its author Pedro de Machuca worked in Italy and had similar influences and teachers, including Michelangelo, but in very different moments of his life (if Machuca is the *Pedro Spagnuolo* in italian sources working with younger Michelangelo), but Machuca palace was built much earlier, one of the first mannerist buildings almost a “precendent”, when Spain was still dominated by heavily ornamented plateresque style and much before most mannerist masterworks in Italy or elsewhere, while Vignola palace is mature mannerism and one of the best known examples of that style.
I bet half of the village worked in the palace, the other half provided food and stuff to the first half
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Fantastic! La bella Italia!👍
With a moat and drawbridges in case the peasants get uppity.
Italian Pentagon
Another interesting historical settlement from the ever surprising Italy.
Ah yes, the pentagon
The power and grandiosity of royals never cease to amaze.
The real pentagon
[removed]
Nice Pentagon
Looks like a long snake with a cobra head, similar to the style of the vatican lol
Reminds me the pentagonal version of [Charles V palace](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uIrr7kV7cpY/UzG-hj-_eOI/AAAAAAAAA6E/9_BrGmiZby0/s1600/corazonsalvaje.mforos.JPG) inside the Alhambra in Granada, also with a circular patio inside. It seems that its author Pedro de Machuca worked in Italy and had similar influences and teachers, including Michelangelo, but in very different moments of his life (if Machuca is the *Pedro Spagnuolo* in italian sources working with younger Michelangelo), but Machuca palace was built much earlier, one of the first mannerist buildings almost a “precendent”, when Spain was still dominated by heavily ornamented plateresque style and much before most mannerist masterworks in Italy or elsewhere, while Vignola palace is mature mannerism and one of the best known examples of that style.
I bet half of the village worked in the palace, the other half provided food and stuff to the first half
The Farnese family is still going strong, no?
What this building? Butiful but what does?