Le strutture interne tra Sei e Settecento

The article focuses on the history of some functional buildings inside the Venetian fortification known as "Castello" in Brescia. After the construction of the new bastions finally designed in 1588, Venetian government started to build other necessary structures to make the new fortress operative: barracks, a military hospital, barns, armories, gunpowder depot, mills and water cisterns. Through the analysis of cartography and written primary sources, the author dates the exact construction of these buildings and infrastructures, some of which are still existing, while other has been demolished.