Amidst the scent of the sea and tales suspended in the wind, the Pagliopoli Tower once stood as a sentinel low over the sea, watching over the ancient port of Portigliola from above. Also known as Torre dei Corvi, it was one of the towers of the walls of ancient Locri Epizephiri that was later adapted as a coastal tower during the 16th-century viceroyalty of the Spaniard Don Pedro De Toledo. Its solid structure of local stone, with its quadrangular profile, dominated the sea horizon, transmitting strength and grandeur to anyone who observed it.
Struck by the violent earthquake of 1638 and finally bent by that of 1907, only a few precious traces remain of the tower today: fragments of walls that silently recount centuries of resistance, fear and hope. These ruins, immersed in a landscape suspended between sky and sea, guard the memory of a territory that has been able to combine its maritime soul with its defensive vocation.
To visit the remains of the Pagliopoli Tower is to take a journey back in time, along the routes that connected the East and the West, and to rediscover the profound identity of a coastline that has never ceased to look to the sea as a source of life and a future.
