Forte Michelangelo
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 29, 2025 11:12 AM
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History
A fortress at modern Civitavecchia in Italy. It was begun in 1508 and completed in 1537 during the reign of Pope Paul III. Antonio Sangallo the Younger designed the fortress.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678593934
42.0903606525, 11.7908967288
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Forte Michelangelo (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Forte Michelangelo (Italian, modern)
- Forte Michelangelo located at Centum Cellae (unspecified date range)
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Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Forte Michelangelo: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678593934> [accessed: 14 February 2026]
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