Torre dell'Orologio

The Torre dell’Orologio is a square tower, built hard against the town gate and the bell-tower of the mother church. Its chief ornament is a large relief coat of arms on the main façade: an eagle clutching crossed keys, beneath the phrase ROMA DOMA, a piece of Mussolini-era bravado chiselled into concrete. The whole structure is of cement, with a flat cement roof. It is a blunt, unapologetic object, more bunker than belfry; a municipal clock-tower that wears its political history on its face. The design owes nothing to medieval or Renaissance precedent, but everything to the interwar taste for monumental severity. A timepiece set in such a building tells not just the hour, but something of the decade in which it was raised.

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