casa, plurifamiliare, torre urbica

This is a polygonal-plan house with a semi-circular urban defence tower to the north of the historic centre. Three storeys high, it is built of partly rendered stone masonry, with iron and brick floors. The pitched roof is covered in traditional curved tiles and finished with a cornicione alla romanella, a projecting eaves course typical of local vernacular building. The tower itself has just one small opening, framed in stone blocks; otherwise, the façades present no notable architectural features. The building is in fair condition and used as a residence, containing three flats. It is a modest, workaday structure: a house that happens to incorporate a medieval fortification, not a showpiece. Such towers were once common on the edges of Italian hill towns, marking the boundary between settled life and the open countryside beyond. Here, the defensive function has long since been absorbed into the domestic, and the tower stands as a quiet, unassuming piece of the town’s layered history.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.