I TREASURES OF GORGONA I TREASURES OF GORGONA

Loc. Isola di Gorgona (Livorno)

The Towers coastal often go back to their core at the time of the Maritime Republic of Pisa and had warning function; following the time of the Medici riadattate were for defensive purposes. The island of Gorgona currently two towers of particular historical importance: la Torre Vecchia, with defensive purposes, and new, with the purpose of warning.

The news oldest on the Old Tower is 1207. We have more news of the period when the Medici in 1580 entrust the fortress of Gorgona at a certain Antonio Serguidi and when in 1633 the then lord Marco Moretti exposes the disastrous situation of the tower "to be broken conducted there, and also the source rock is all wood rots them de roofs because dalli twenty were taken away embrici them blankets and roof. " Today, the old tower is a stunning, evocative ruin overlooking the sea.

In 1697 it was erected a new tower, an example of a fortified structure with a large shoe to the base, built on a rocky outcrop approximately 30m sea of Cala Maestra. In 1800 the castle tower, iltenente Lorrent asks permission to governor of Livorno, De Lavillette, to make reports in the event of danger by smoke and fire days and three cannon shots at night.