Castle
Torre del Diavolo
🇮🇹 Italy
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.
Text adapted from “Torre del Diavolo” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Torre del Diavolo ranks #5,007 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #378 of the 487 mapped in Italy. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Florence, 38 km away. It is one of the 35 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Tuscany. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Torre del Diavolo?
Torre del Diavolo stands in Italy, at 43.46756°, 11.04393°.
How famous is Torre del Diavolo?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #5,007 of 8,134 worldwide, and #378 in Italy. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Torre del Diavolo?
Torre Rognosa, about 1 km away.
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