Abstract
The paper focuses on Giuseppe Ignazio Bertola’s project for the citadel of Alessandria in Piedmont, Italy, in the eighteenth century. The study is developed analyzing two main aspects: the infraction to the geometry of the regular hexagon, that Bertola adopted for the perimetral form of the citadel, in order to make it more resistant to the external attack on the basis of the orographic context; the conformation to assign to the main enclosure and to the external works on the basis of the specialized treatises published at that time and which Bertola usually referred to.
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