Catalmo Tower
The tower of Catalmo or “Torre Catalmo” rises in the district of the same name (on the border with the municipality of Savoca) and is in fair conditions of conservation, it has a square plan with two elevations. It stands in the middle of the site where the town of Phoinix must have stood in ancient times and it is not excluded that it was built on the foundations of an older artifact from ancient times. The Catalmo tower was built in 1506 by the Trimarchi family of Savoca to defend their vast properties. Until the end of the 1970th century it was a military tower of great strategic importance, in constant contact with the nearby castle of Pentefur. Towards the end of the eighteenth century, as the threat of pirates disappeared, it lost its strategic-defensive peculiarities. Until XNUMX it was used as a residential building
Source: Wikipedia
Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero
Information contributions: Web
Photo: By Eugenio Nicola Scarcella – Own work, Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45788671
Note: The population of the cards of the Heritage database proceeds in incremental phases: cataloging, georeferencing, insertion of information and images. The cultural property in question has been cataloged, and the first information has been entered. In order to enrich the information content, further contributions are welcome, if you wish you can contribute through our area "Your Contributions"
