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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9770467" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Most palaces have turrets and gatehouses. They're there because they're always there... as the early palaces were inside fortifications. And it's always good to keep the "rabble" at beyond arms reach.[ATTACH=full]418951[/ATTACH]Take, for example, the current Palace of the Prince of Monaco. It has multiple square towers, but ground-accessible windows. And it's got a big exterior yard inside a crenalated wall...Is it a fortress? Not in any particularly meaningful way. It hasn't been practical to make a fortress for the palace for centuries... since the invention of the cannon.  It does, however, have some really good kill zones... like that paved yard in the foreground, looking at the main and a side entry...[ATTACH=full]418952[/ATTACH]Note that there's not even a good wall  blocking the palace plaza... It has trappings of a fortress, but isn't one.</blockquote>