Papal towers

One of the six coastal watchtowers built to defend the Circeo promontory, erected in 1562 on the orders of Pope Pius IV, who by papal brief instructed the lords of S...

16th-century watchtower, one of the first four built at the wish of Pope Pius IV in 1562 to defend the promontory from raids by Saracen and Barbary pirates, standing...

16th-century coastal tower, one of the first four built in 1562 by Pope Pius IV at Cala Moresca (or Concolino) to defend the Circeo promontory. Of all the towers in...

Coastal watchtower rebuilt in a larger and more efficient form in place of the earlier, crumbling 16th-century tower, as part of the wider defensive system which, ov...

The only one of the six coastal towers of the Circeo to keep its original structure intact, built in the 16th century by the outlet of Lake Sabaudia (then Lake Paola...

The last of the Circeo’s coastal towers to be built, in the third decade of the 17th century, completing the anti-pirate defence system begun in the previous century...