Centum Cellas Tower, In Belmonte

This is a unique monument lytic currently in ruins, over the centuries has attracted the attention of onlookers and scholars, raising many different legends and theories around him.

One of the traditions, for example, states that the building would have been a prison with a hundred cells (hence the name), which would have been captive St. Cornelius (hence the alternative name).

On its original function, it was believed that it could have been a praetorium (Roman camp). However, archaeological prospecting programs in the surrounding area, undertaken in the 1960s and in the 1990s, indicate that this is more properly a uilla, being the representative of his pars urban tower was yet much of the pars rustica by digging.

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