Doria Castle
Genoese hilltop fortress with a stone gate, bastions, and grain-and-salt trade measures still cut into its wall.
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This guide to Doria Castle above Portovenere in Cinque Terre traces the fortress Genoa began raising in eleven sixty-one, and the carved stone measures still cut into its wall for weighing grain and salt from the harbor below. It follows the Fieschi family's seizure of the town and castle in the twelve hundreds, and Genoa's long fight to force its way back in. Stand by the measures near the gate, where the guide's account of who controlled the port begins.
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