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Civic Museum Il Torrione

Via Torrione, 30, 80075 Forio NA, Italia

il torrione

The tower dominates with its high amount of the settlement around, within a context of remarkable urban and architectural value, which include some fine eighteenth-century buildings, including Palazzo Covatta, the Palace, located just in front of the tower. The tower, circular and flat roof terraces, spread over three floors, of which the lower one, replacing the base, is dug in the tufa rock on which it stands. The outer part of a parameter is made with trachytic tuff stone, roughly squared blocks joined by mortar. The first torus, trachytic stone, surrounds the cylinder at the first level, and the second acts as a support for the shelves, connected by arches, supporting the embattled cornice. The three floors are covered with vaults of which hemispheric the upper lunette. Last level is accessed via an outside staircase to the second set which is bounded by the cantilevered parapet broken, according to a pattern in use in architecture foriana less. An internal staircase makes the connection to the roof terrace. Continuing along the same street you will reach the tower in the main street of Forio, a time dedicated to the King Umberto first, today Avv. Francis Queens. Walk one block to the left, opposite the beautiful Basilica of Santa Maria di Loreto is the Tower of “Corso Umberto”.

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