Montagnana -Padova. Reported 8th June
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Another Italian Crop Circle has been reported today at :
mattinopadova.gelocal.it
<http://mattinopadova.gelocal.it/dettaglio/compare-il-terzo-cerchio-nel-\
grano-e'-in-un-campo-vicino-a-montagnana/2070233>
It rises in Montagnana, (an extraordinary medieval walled fortified town
near Padua) middle way between the heart of the walled city and Frassine
.In ancient times this was a flooded zone. This is he third CC that
appears in this land, after Tribano and Santa Maria d'Adige.
Here issome information about the history of Montagnana and description
of its walls. I think it is important in order to underline the position
of the CC that rises in a place that was flooded by men for defence of
invaders..
"The most important monuments, however, are formed by walls, the
fortress of trees and the Castle of San Zeno
<http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/photo1212406.htm%20:> . The
high-medieval fortifications, which are supposedly enhanced in the tenth
century. A.D. in defence of the raids of the Hungarians, were composed
almost exclusively of earthworks, fences, ditches and barriers of thorny
plants.
The walled city is enclosed in an irregular quadrilateral of size
approximately 600 x 300 meters with an area of 24 hectares and a
perimeter of about two kilometres. The walls, crowned with battlements
type of Guelph, are high from 6.5 to 8 meters with a thickness of 96-100
cm. Between a blackbird and the other, the fans were used to repair the
wooden defenders. The perimeter towers, a total of 24, spaced about 60
meters, are high between 17 and 19 meters. The outer rampart varies from
30 to 40 meters.
Inside the tubes that hold the rounds were stowed stores (canipe) for
storage of goods produced in the country (you can still see the grooves
to secure the plates in wood). Towers, with decks and covered by a
sloping roof sheltered under the pitch equipped with machine launch,
were other stores and places to camp for soldiers garrisoned fortress in
times of military emergency. An area free from development and turned to
face pomerium cultivated for long sieges, were all around the walls from
the inside. Around the walls ran a wide moat (now the picturesque green
valley) flooded with water from the river Frassine (border towards
Vicenza) derived by means of a channel for banks raised (the stream)
which functions as a defensive wall of welding along which, from the
Padua, was raised a menagerie for the concentration of troops. All
around the area montagnanese were impassable marshes or shores flood in
case of war, so that the walled city was the key of the border west of
Padua."
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