Cat Tower

The tower, almost square in plan, was built at the end of the sixteenth century and was part of the sighting circuit created by Camillo Camilliani along the entire perimeter of the Sicilian coasts. A legend linked to this tower tells that once the owner's daughter was kidnapped by Berber pirates to extort a ransom from her father. To try to reach the sum of money necessary for his release, the girl had the idea of ​​taking it away from her jailers and sending it home little by little hidden under fish crates. Once discovered by the pasha, however, she was killed and torn to pieces, and the shreds of her body were sent little by little to her father in the same way as she had sent the money. Torrenova owes its name to this sixteenth-century building which today remains almost intact, delineated by cantons in small ashlars, among which the walls in pebbles and pozzolana are woven. The four drains are intact, the sandstone vents on the second floor windows, the wolf's mouths. Inside, once the connections were secured thanks to retractable holes and stairs, while today they are possible with a two-ramp concrete staircase.