Lazise Castle

The castle and the walls of the old town were originally built on concession of the Emperor Frederick IV after year 1000

Lazise Castle was later restored and enlarged by Cansignorio della Scala in the second half of the fourteenth century to strengthen the western borders of its territories, the walls were equipped with six towers and three gates with portcullis and drawbridge, the Porta San Zeno to the east, south and brings Lion Porta Nuova or Cansignorio North, added later by the Scala family. The castle was ruined, it was restored in the mid-nineteenth century by Giovanni Battista Buri who included it in a park that stood out the ‘medieval appearance romantic Of the seven towers then present, the Torrazzo is the last remained, and in 1777 was converted into a bell tower and later in private funeral chapel. What was the Tower instead of Cadeno, placed next to the Customs to protect the entrance of the old port, was demolished to raise the war memorial.