Italy
Torre del Diavolo ranks #5,144 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #369 of the 555 mapped in Italy. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Florence, 38 km away. It is one of the 42 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Tuscany. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
Devil's Tower (Italian: Torre del Diavolo) is a tower located in the north of San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy, which flanks the Palazzo Cortesi. It is named "Devil's Tower" because of a legend in which the owner of the tower at the time returned home after a long journey, and "[was] convinced that it had grown taller, the only explanation for the phenomenon, he alleged, being that a DIY-inclined devil had been busy during his absence". It is made of white calciferous rock, possessing brackets on the top of the latter portion.
The tower houses the (Italian: Museo della Tortura), which provides scientific presentation of this subject matter.
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