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  The castle of Brolio is similar to the emblem of the Chianti, a sort of banner, the standard-bearer of an entire army of fortresses, many of which have forgotten their original characteristics. This is due to the fact that when you see it from far away, it looks powerful, solid, arrogant, redundant. You then discover that this is not how things really are. You discover that that circle of walls which is an irregular indestructible

 
 

 pentagon of stone, encloses within its boundaries a peaceful life brimming with activity. But these walls are the same as those existing at the end of the 15th century when the castle was destroyed by one of the numerous armed attacks made in those centuries, in this case by the

 

Aragonese troops in favour of the Kingdom of Naples. These walls which trace the irregular pattern of a pentagon and are connected to five towers, develop on a perimeter of almost 500 metres all along the passageway.