TORRE TROYANA

The Troyana Tower, restored between 1997 and 1999, has a square base with a side measuring five and a half metres on the outside and three and a half metres on the inside; it is thirty-six and sixty metres high at the level of the battlements and 44 at the top of the lantern. A symbol of Asti's Middle Ages, it is also an extraordinary vantage point over the city.

Built between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, around 1250 it became the property of the Troyas, one of Asti's most powerful families, who raised it three storeys, marked by stone string-course cornices and elegant mullioned windows with two lights, and then completed it with the triple crowning of hanging arches and Ghibelline battlements.
By the end of the 14th century, the Troya tower was already incorporated into the Ducal Palace complex.
The tower and the palace, owned by the family until its extinction during the 15th century, passed to Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Savoy, in 1560, who assigned the tower to the public function of striking the hours.
The bell on the summit, completely restored and relocated to its original position, dates back to 1531 and is one of the oldest in the whole of Piedmont.

The Troyana Tower is part of the integrated museum network of Asti Museums. The Smarticket, the ticket to visit the city's museums, is on sale at Palazzo Mazzetti, Corso Alfieri 357.