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...........Here in the western corner of the old city, and built into sloped brickwork below the Ducal Palace, is a bastion-like rounded structure projecting out (extreme right.). It rises in several storeys. The main part of it is the 15thC Rampa Elicoidale designed by Francesco di Giorgio Martini. His proficiency in geometry was outstanding and his work influenced the vocabulary of followers, especially Bramante. Recent studies give him more credit for the best architecture of Urbino’s golden era than was previously attributed.
Recently architect Giancarlo De Carlo discovered and retrieved the Rampa from the obscurity in which it had been left for more than a century, restoring the old access, and also the Sanzio theatre on top with revised entry. This sensitive recovery provided for today a helical ramp-stair and lift tower for pedestrians. It brings us from the lower carpark, up within the walls alongside the Ducal Palace, to follow along the vaulted colonnade of Corso Garibaldi (central horizontal), leading to Piazza Repubblica (off left). An ingenious and most successful townscape linkage!..........
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