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In the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city, a fortress town fort is built in the form of a star.
The Republic of Venice and Austria fought over Friuli's borders in the sixteenth century. The Venetians made the decision to construct a fortress in the midst of the region, and they did so in accordance with the idealistic concept of the Renaissance ideal city. They did so to defend against the threat of the Habsburgs and Ottoman attacks. Philosophers, artists, and well-educated people in 16th-century Europe were fond of the idea of a city that was precisely geometric in design and encircled by walls; several depictions of such a perfect metropolis can be found in the art and literature of the time. Therefore, when the architects of the Republic of Venice were given the opportunity to create a town from the ground up, they seized the occasion to install the intellectual idea into practice.
