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Porto Ercole

Porto Ercole is a fortified harbour town on the Monte Argentario promontory on the coast of southern Tuscany. Kept by Philip II of Spain in 1557 when he granted Siena to the Medici, it was one of the fortresses of the State of the Presidi, guarded by Spanish forts. The painter Caravaggio died there in 1610.

Porto Ercole
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State of the Presidi

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Porto Ercole. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/porto-ercole
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