Armory of the Rocca Roveresca (Mondavio)

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The Museum of Rocca Roveresca consists of two sections set up in different rooms of the building: the museum of remembrance and the armory of the castle. The armory want to remember this building as the military wanted the architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini, possessed a formidable apparatus for the active and passive defense. The armament consists of medium-caliber artillery, mortars like, such as handguns and semi-portable by location and spingardelle. Among the weapons we find examples of individual weapons as inastate ronconi, halberds and pikes. Swords and daggers round, along with clubs of various kinds, the type of offensive weapons. The defensive sidearms, however, were made of armor and helmets, variables in relation to war needs and the evolution of artillery in each period.
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