In the inner courtyard there was the door leading to the barracks that at the outbreak of war in 1914 hosted the 13 th battalion of Austrian Local Militia. On the left side of the courtyard there is the old entrance to the Castle, the so-called “Salcano door”. It remained bricked up for centuries but opened again during the 10 th Isonzo battle, when the Austro-Hungarian artillery hit with an accurately targeted howitzer the Italian observation post placed a little higher up.