The feature that differs from those of other cities of Italy is their thinness: a square base and with only six meters rise up to 53 meters high. The foundations are very deep and formed from the same tower filled with calcined stones. It is said that during a party at the castle date from the account of Filippo Maria Visconti Maino promised to build a tower upside down if the child had graduated, and the tower in question was built in the corner of Casa del Maino, which is the current School of Science. Had a base of four meters and a height widened forming stacked balconies from which you could see the city from different heights.
The towers were no longer at war purposes, but they were only a sign of power and wealth: when was born the son of a new generation there was a high, taller and had larger was in the prestige of the family. In Pavia, which was called the city of hundred towers, because according to the historian Spelt more than a hundred hung over the towers, there are still 72, the majority was "cut" by the adverse party during communal strife between the Guelphs and Ghibellines: who was won loot the homes of rivals and cut off their towers.
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