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West on the Via Porta Rossa is the 14th-century Palazzo Davanzati; its stern, fortress-like exterior still provides rings at ground level for tethering horses and on upper stories to hold torches and lanterns for festive occasions.
The fortress-like exterior is decorated with 14 niches: to fill them, the major guilds commissioned statues of patron saints from Florence’s greatest talents (replicas now stand in their place).
The ominous 13th-century fortress-like palazzo that houses the Bargello Museum (Via del Proconsolo, 4) was Florence’s first town hall and dreaded prison under the jurisdiction of the Police Chief, or Bargello, before becoming the National Museum of Sculpture.
On one of the seven hills of ancient Rome, the fortress-like Palazzo del Quirinale, once summer residence to popes fleeing the malarial swamps of the Vatican down by the Tiber, housed the new king of Italy after 1870, and since 1947 is the presidential palace.
The nearby Sé (Cathedral), begun in 1186, betrays its crusading origins with its fortress-like Romanesque style.