Another Italian Crop Circle has been reported today at : mattinopadova.gelocal.it

It rises in Montagnana, (an extraordinary medieval walled fortified town near Padua) middle way between the heart of the walled city and Frassine .In ancient times this was a flooded zone. This  is he third CC that appears in this land, after Tribano and Santa Maria d'Adige. 

Here issome information about the  history of Montagnana and description of its walls. I think it is important in order to underline the position of the CC that rises in a place that was flooded by men for defence of invaders..

"The most important monuments, however, are formed by walls, the fortress of trees and the Castle of San Zeno. The high-medieval fortifications, which are supposedly enhanced in the tenth century. A.D. in defence of the raids of the Hungarians, were composed almost exclusively of earthworks, fences, ditches and barriers of thorny plants.

The walled city is enclosed in an irregular quadrilateral of size approximately 600 x 300 meters with an area of 24 hectares and a perimeter of about two kilometres. The walls, crowned with battlements type of Guelph, are high from 6.5 to 8 meters with a thickness of 96-100 cm. Between a blackbird and the other, the fans were used to repair the wooden defenders. The perimeter towers, a total of 24, spaced about 60 meters, are high between 17 and 19 meters. The outer rampart varies from 30 to 40 meters.

Inside the tubes that hold the rounds were stowed stores (canipe) for storage of goods produced in the country (you can still see the grooves to secure the plates in wood). Towers, with decks and covered by a sloping roof sheltered under the pitch equipped with machine launch, were other stores and places to camp for soldiers garrisoned fortress in times of military emergency. An area free from development and turned to face pomerium cultivated for long sieges, were all around the walls from the inside. Around the walls ran a wide moat (now the picturesque green valley) flooded with water from the river Frassine (border towards Vicenza) derived by means of a channel for banks raised (the stream) which functions as a defensive wall of welding along which, from the Padua, was raised a menagerie for the concentration of troops. All around the area montagnanese were impassable marshes or shores flood in case of war, so that the walled city was the key of the border west of Padua."

Mar