The machicoulis and alurs of a later date were imitations in stone of the wooden bretasche.
A magnificent range of machicoulis with crenellation above protects the towers and the curtain between, the merlons being pierced with oillets.
A range of machicoulis is placed over the entrance, while a small portion of an original bretasche, a very rare survival of the medieval period, is also preserved in the Castle.
It was during this period that machicoulis and alurs reached their highest efficiency and development, and in every castle built after 1250 they may be found wherever extra strengthening of the defence was desirable.
Probably the earliest examples of machicoulis are found upon this Keep.
Each tower is coiffed with a peaked candle-snuffer cap and a row of machicoulis which gives the whole edifice a warlike look which is unmistakable.
It consisted of a substantial wall rising about twenty-four feet above the outside ground level, without machicoulis, strengthened with cylindrical towers thirty-six feet in height surrounded by machicoulis and covered with conical roofs.
In Syria, the Christians had adopted the machicoulis as early as the beginning of the thirteenth century.
Machicoulis formed also the upper defence of the curtains and towers of the castle, whose plan had not been changed.
The Machicoulis gallery in the gun tower was still further improved, and good loopholes were made in the lower story.
The Machicoulis galleries were gradually improved and loopholed inside, in a way that all the ground immediately under the tower could be well watched, and a sentry always lay in each of these galleries.
It seems, however, to have been much like the Castle at Mantua in its character, with bold machicoulis at the top of the walls, and a well battered-out base to the whole building.
In front is the old brick tower at the Porta di Castello, with its deep brick machicoulis sloping boldly outwards, and finished with a square battlement under a flat roof.
The old portions of it are much like the castle at Mantua, and present the same boldly battered base, and the same heavy machicoulis and battlements.
These turrets are of stone, and between them is a parapet boldly corbelled out on machicoulis from the walls.
It is plain below, but has turrets picturesquely corbelled out on machicoulis over the centre of each side and at each angle.
It has large circular projections at the angles, which are finished with fantastic cappings, and sham machicoulis below the ponderous overhanging cornices which ornament the walls both at the end and sides.
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