COMO: PORTA TORRE TOWER, Como: Porta Torre Tower

Hi, I am Rick, your personal guide, and together with MyWoWo I’d like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world: the ancient Porta Torre Tower.

The historic center of Como is still partially surrounded by the remains of ancient walls, so much so that it is called a 'walled city', and Porta Torre Tower, or the Torre di Porta Vittoria, with its 40-meter height, is the clearest testimony to the grandeur that this defensive system originally had.

The first city walls date back to Roman times, built under the rule of Emperor Julius Caesar more than 2000 years ago, but were almost completely destroyed around 1127 at the end of the ten-year war between Como and Milan. The walls were only rebuilt after the alliance with Frederick Barbarossa, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, who arrived in Italy in 1154, and that is why these fortifications are called 'Frederician', to distinguish them from the Roman ones....