Palmanova

This pattern is inspired by the beautiful star-shaped walled city of Palmanova in Northern Italy. Palmanova was built by the Republic of Venice in late 1500 as a utopistic idea of the ‘perfect ideal city for the modern human’. The star-shaped fortress that surrounds the city has been used ever the centuries as a strategic lookout point for many battles (lastly used as a fortress in WW1). Nowadays it is a city that bubbles with culture and art and it has been recognized as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2017.