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 #3,085 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #252 of the 350 mapped in Italy. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
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