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Begun in the mid fourteenth century by the Visconti lords of Milan and substantially rebuilt a century later by Francesco Sforza after he established the Sforza dynasty, the Castello Sforzesco is the great red-brick fortress on the northern edge of central Milan, one of the largest urban castles in Europe and a symbol of the city for more than six centuries. The current outline of the castle dates largely from the 1450s, when Francesco Sforza commissioned the architect Filarete to design a powe...