Rocca di Vasciano

Erected close to the mountain, with its walls rising to the sky in memory of ancient splendour, the fortress, which is now in ruin, still has an austere and majestic appearance.

The rigidly vertical outer walls without a trace of earthwork date it back to the 13th century. 
At the four vertices it had four towers - some still surviving with their crumbling tops - levelled to the same plane as the curtain which joined them together. In the east corner tower, there are slits that are still open on the different floors, from which projectiles were dropped vertically on the attackers. 

On the inside of the perimeter walls, however, one can still see the openings of the embrasures and the holes of the wooden scaffolding from which the tower men could observe the attacker's work of beating or scaling the walls undetected. A wide opening in the wall facing the castle square, from the base extending to the top, makes the structure of these towers militarily distinctive. It ends with a vault where the trapdoor opens and from which the defenders accessed the terrace for signalling purposes. 

The walled enclosure consisted of square or round towers with a moderate protrusion from the perpendicular walls.