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The Eastern Tower
It was the less equipped tower for active defence. As it was enclosed inside the castle wall it had fewer functions than the tower outiside the wall.
It served more a logistic function than a defensive one. A seventeenth-century parchment picturing the castle and the fortress very clearly, shows the tower with a sloping roof, contrary to the other towers. Given the scarce offensive potentialities of this tower, it was often used as a deposit or in case of siege it provided accommodation for the inhabitants of the fortress. Two embrasures watched the walls running into the tower. The defence was exercised on the upper part, shielded by the crenallated parapet, through the merlons, loopholes and gun-embrasures.
This tower is the only one to have mantained the cross vault uninjuried, with the chimneys for the escape of the fumes caused by the guns fire.
(abstract from Maurizio Mauro, La Rocca di Urbisaglia, Adriapress Ravenna)
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