Here's an outside view of the stone wedding cake known as the Minčeta tower -- the design of one of Florence's most famous Renaissance architects: Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, builder for the Medicis. As a sculptor and collaborator with Donatello, Michelozzo did subtlety. But as a defensive architect, he did force as well. When both Constantinople and Bosnia fell to the Ottomans in the mid 1400s, Dubrovnik knew it had to strengthen the town's highest spot owned by the Mincetic family. They invited Michelozzo to design this and several other fortifications. He placed this round middle section with 20-foot walls above the existing 4-sided fort built in 1319 and integrated it into the scarp walls.
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