Street in San Leo photo copyrighted by: Brian McMorrow The Fortress of San Leo was built in the Middle Ages and it was here at the end
of the first Millennium, that Germanic rulers gave birth to the Holy Roman Empire. The fortress itself was enlarged in the 16th Century by the great Siena military architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini under Duke Federico II da Montefeltro. It was here, in this impregnable castle, that the famous adventurer Giuseppe Balsamo, better known as Count Cagliostro, lived his last days of imprisonment.
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