page_title: Place-of-arms
hierarchical_section_title: Place-of-arms
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Michael's Counterguard, Valletta, Malta. The flags on the counterguard are for the filming of the Assassin's Creed movie.
context_page_description: A place-of-arms is any place in a fortification where troops can gather. The term has a number of meanings, but it generally refers to an enlarged area of the covertway designed as an assembly point for soldiers, or a square in the centre of a fortress, also known as a parade ground.
  There are two types of places-of-arms:
  Salient place-of-arms: a place-of-arms which protrudes outside the polygonal shape of the fortification
  Re-entrant place-of-arms: a place-of-arms which does not protrude outside the polygonal shape of the fortification
context_section_description: A place-of-arms (Italian: piazza d'armi, French: place d'armes) is any place in a fortification where troops can gather. The term has a number of meanings, but it generally refers to an enlarged area of the covertway designed as an assembly point for soldiers, or a square in the centre of a fortress, also known as a parade ground.
  There are two types of places-of-arms:
  Salient place-of-arms: a place-of-arms which protrudes outside the polygonal shape of the fortification
  Re-entrant place-of-arms: a place-of-arms which does not protrude outside the polygonal shape of the fortification
caption: A place-of-arms on the covertway of Valletta
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