Surrounded by a moat, Otranto Castle features an irregular pentagonal plan, three cylindrical corner towers, and, on the seaside, a sharp lance-shaped bastion added with external bulwarks in 1578; the bastion bears the coats of arms of Antonio De Mendoza and Don Pedro da Toledo.
Above the entrance portal stands the large coat of arms of Charles V.
Information about Otranto Castle
Via Alfonso d’Aragona, 19032 Otranto (Lecce) 0832930722 –
https://www.castellipuglia.org/
Source: MIBACT
