Tour d'Omigna

English translation

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History

This Genoese tower was built in the second half of the 16th century. It was part of the land known as the Four Towers and was constructed by the populations of Paomia, Revinda and Salona, who had taken refuge at Renno, in order to protect the cultivable lands of the coast from Barbary pirates. It is a round tower twelve metres high, built on a rocky base. The first level is blind and marked with putlog holes. Above the string course, the second level is pierced with a door and a window. A terrace crowned with open machicolations terminates the tower. To the south-west, a protective wall has integrated at its base two of the fourteen original triangular corbels. Inside, a cistern well stands beside the staircase of eight steps which gives access to the terrace. On it, the staircase exit is protected by a triangular wall resting on the north-east part of the parapet.