Wrinkles

Le Rughe is a rare and evocative example of 13th century castle architecture, which solves the problems of traffic and defense along the perimeter of the western city walls in a single solution, on which the portam castri opens and, under the crenellated tower , is still the main entrance to the castle. But since the needs of defense prevail over those of viability, the leveled road seen today, then it did not exist and was instead a path to ups and downs, so to speak, on some points where they flowed, passing under the houses, short descents coming from the immediately superior parallel, called the Stradone and today via Roma, evidently with the aim of favoring the defensive movement of the castellans towards the walls and the portam castri. Wrinkles are still an example of medieval urban planning, having in this case the dual military purpose of disorienting that enemy who had managed to enter the castle by overcoming the castle gate and consequently to favor the passage of the castellans to the counteroffensive. Currently we can see the roofs with vaults in rounded stone or with planks, the powerful pointed or round arches that support them, the slits from which they light up and which in the Middle Ages were also a place of defense against external attacks on this front, thanks also to the help that came to them from the structures that rested on it and that on the four traits still remain rested.