Surrounded by a moat, the Castle of Otranto features an irregular pentagonal plan, three cylindrical corner towers, and on the sea side, a sharp lance-shaped bastion added with the external bulwarks in 1578; on the bastion are the coats of arms of Antonio De Mendoza and Don Pedro da Toledo.
Above the entrance portal is 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
