Torre del Comune
The Torre del Comune or Torre di Piazza ( community tower or tower of the square ) is a clock and bell tower in the old town of Locarno in the Swiss canton of Ticino . The medieval building is a protected cultural asset of regional and cantonal importance.
Description and location
The tower is slim and has five floors, the base area measures 4.15 by 5.6 meters. Residential buildings are now built on three sides. Building studies were not carried out, the large hewn humpback cuboids on the building edges suggest a base from the 12th or 13th century. After the Visconti took over power in Locarno in 1342, the tower was raised to its current height in the late Middle Ages. It was later given a clock face that faces the main square, Piazza Grande . Since the houses there have been extended many times, his watch can only be viewed to a limited extent or from a greater distance.
The tower is not located directly on the city's main square, but about 25 meters to the west on a street called Vicolo alla Torre , which was named after the building.
literature
- Thomas Bitterli: Swiss castle guide, including the Principality of Liechtenstein . Basel / Berlin, 1995. No. 627.
- Virgilio Gilardoni, Virgilio: I monumenti d'arte e di storia del Canton Ticino. Volume I: Locarno e il suo circolo. Basel 1972. p. 147ff.
Web links
- burgenwelt.org: Torre del Comune (Torre di Piazza). (accessed on December 2, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ^ Category "B", KGS no .: 11959 in the inventory of cultural property protection
Coordinates: 46 ° 10 '10.1 " N , 8 ° 47' 40.2" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and four thousand seven hundred and fourteen / 114016