The castelliere of Repnič
The perimeter walls of the castelliere (fortified town) are 240 meter long and are characterised by the presence of two access points. The impressiveness of their ruins induced the local Board of Cultural Heritage and Environmental Conservation to restore the site, while considering its relevance. The originally elliptic profile of the walls of the castelliere is today interrupted in its western part by the quarry beneath, however the wall section still allows you to perceive its solidity. The walls are dry stone walls with the external surfaced composed of big limestone blocks and a core filling made of stones and earth, in order to give more solidity to the structure. The castelliere in fact had a purely defensive and territorial control function. Almost all the castellieri are located on the top of hills which command a wide view on the sorrounding territory and can usually sea one another. This induces us to think that at the time they where build in the 2nd millenium BC, a sort of signalling network between the different castellieri was in use in order to create an out-and-out defensive line.