The Sapphire Rocchetta Arrighina

The sapphire Rocchetta Arrighina in Pietrasanta is found next to the Porta in Pisa

La Rocchetta is a military building built by Castruccio Castracani in 1324 to strengthen the defense

of the Rocca di Sala

Castruccio Castracani appears to have brought his son Enrico when construction began

placing a sapphire on the first brick in a glass of water and wine and under the next door

named Porta a Pisa which gave access to the historic center a florin in a glass of water and wine

According to legend, the Rocchetta Arrighina sapphire gives wisdom, royalty and divine favor

and it is probable that all this was dedicated to this construction

The fortification was equipped with a double drawbridge inside the city and outside

where the moat was then they added the bells in 1456

It was destroyed by the siege of the Florentines in 1484 and later rebuilt and transformed

to the point of becoming a private property in our days, taking away that military air

Deepening