Resumen de I sistemi difensivi dei Savoia lungo le vie del mare: Ormea e Tenda
The Alpine passes of the Maritime Alps have always constituted a complex system of communication and transit able to connect the population of the two scope, but, at the same time, able to allow the arrival of the enemy populations. In the case of the roads leading from Turin to the sea, two routes in particular have been the subject of attention from the Savoy House: one along the Tanaro valley leading to Imperia and that along the Roja valley that passes through Tenda and get to Nice. Carlo Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, until the mid-eighties of the sixteenth century, after having strengthened the major strategic centers, closed these accesses to the sea. The fortress of Ormea, in the Tanaro valley, was a second line of defense on a little protected border until then and was to be the first hurdle for eventual advanced towards the city of Ceva. Tenda and its castle, in Roja Valley, became part of the Savoy dominions only since 1581 when it extinguished the Lascaris family, owner of the village. The study analyzed the events related to the defensive systems of the two centers in the south of Piedmont, studying iconography and military designs drafted by engineers and designers in the House of Savoy service in the second half of the sixteenth century.
