Italy’s famed Sforza Castle is a focal point for historians, architects, and art lovers—as well as a source of many legends. One of the most prominent rumors surrounding the over 575-year-old fortress ...

In 1460, Francesco Sforza, the duke of Milan, decided he required a royal residence. He seized upon the ruins of a medieval fortress in northern Italy and over the next few years, oversaw its ...

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to exist. Ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning revealed that the ...

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Famed artist and philosophical icon Leonardo da Vinci left a surprise in one of his drawings of a castle tunnel from the 1400s, Sforza Castle. Recently, experts have uncovered a secret network of ...

Beneath Sforza Castle in Milan, researchers have discovered a series of secret tunnels—passageways once sketched by the Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci and traversed by a widower ...

Inner courtyard of the Sforza Castle in Milan Credit: Guillermo Carvajal / labrujulaverde.com As part of a doctoral thesis, the prestigious Politecnico di Milano has conducted a pioneering ...

Ground scans beneath the medieval fortification of Milan's Sforza Castle have revealed numerous hidden passages. Some of the tunnels were likely used by the military, while another once linked to a ...

Leonardo da Vinci excelled in the fields of art and science, but the Italian polymath was also a highly skilled expert in military structures and defensive systems, breaking new ground in the strategy ...