Torre delle Arti
Square medieval watchtower, the sole survivor of a hilltop fortress torn down in the thirteen seventies, now an art gallery.
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This guide to Torre delle Arti in Bellagio, on Lake Como, opens in 1375, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti ordered a hilltop fortress torn down to root out the outlaws using it, sparing only the parish church and one square tower beside it. You'll follow the tower through centuries of quiet watching, over fishing boats, rival cities, and a slowly vanishing fortress around it, before it found a different kind of use. Climb its stairwell today and you retrace the same route lookouts once took to the top.
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