Italy · Restored
Castello Estense
The Castello Estense (Castello di San Michele) is a moated brick castle in the centre of Ferrara, built as a large rectangular block with four corner towers and surrounded by a water-filled moat. It later acquired Renaissance exterior detailing and now houses museum rooms and historic apartments open to the public.
First raised
1350
Its prime
1560
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1560
The shape it held in its prime.
A large rectangular brick fortress set in a wide water-filled moat, topped at each corner by tall square towers with flat roof terraces and red-tiled skew roofs; the upper façades are pierced by orderly rows of narrow windows and punctuated by white-stone corbelled balconies replacing medieval battlements. Three foreworks with brick ravelins and drawbridges interrupt the moat; red shutters, terracotta rooflines and the surrounding urban fabric of low ochre buildings frame the composition.
Step inside
12 places to explore in 1560.
The record describes 12 distinct spots at Castello Estense — including 8 interiors: chamber of dawn (in the lion's tower), gothic rooms (ground floor), kitchens (east ravelin) and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Castello Estense with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1560 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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