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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

References

1. James, Charles (1802). A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary. London: T. Egerton. p. 629.
2. Spiteri, Stephen C. (2010). "Illustrated Glossary of Terms used in Military Architecture". ARX Supplement. MilitaryArchitecture.com: 646. Archived from the original on 3 June 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2012.

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