Why is Castello Sforzesco famous

The Sforza courtyard

Francesco Sforza rebuilt it starting in 1450, and his successors, Galeazzo Maria and Ludovico il Moro, turned it into one of Europe’s richest courts. Leonardo da Vinci worked here for nearly 20 years as an engineer, architect, and painter, and in 1498 he painted the Sala delle Asse, currently closed for restoration. Bramante is credited with the Ponticella bridge over the moat. Who lived here.

Michelangelo

The Pietà Rondanini, an unfinished marble sculpture that Michelangelo worked on until just days before his death in 1564, has had its own museum in the former Ospedale Spagnolo since 2015. It’s the reason the museum ticket exists. The Pietà.

The fortress

A square with sides of about 200 meters, walls roughly 7 meters thick, a now-dry moat, diamond-pointed bastions from 1452, and the Torre del Filarete, which collapsed in 1521 and was rebuilt by Luca Beltrami in 1905. It was a Spanish citadel, an Austrian barracks, nearly demolished after Unification, and saved by restoration. The courtyards are free to cross daily from 7:00 to 19:30. The history in dates.

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