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Torre San Michele

Torre San Michele is one of the landmark monuments of Cervia, built towards the end of the seventeenth century to defend the town and the salt stored in its warehouses from attacks by Saracen pirates.
As well as being a small fort with several windows and arrow slits, the Tower housed the soldiers on guard duty; inside it had facilities and furnishings that made it a proper dwelling. Torre San Michele is now home to the Tourist Information Office of Cervia.

Good to know

  • The structure has a square plan with a base of 13.5 m and an overall height of 22.5 m; the walls are 3 m thick.
  • Its construction was inspired by an old drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, made to design a small fort defending the coastal areas of the Papal States and kept in the archives of the Reverenda Camera Apostolica.

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