Its strategic position suggests its function: it is a thirteenth-century watchtower.
It is not hard to imagine that anyone who attempted to land on our beaches would be spotted from the wide arched window to the south at first, and from there, announced at the castle, in such a way as to be able to predict and possibly counter enemy attacks.
Around 1980 a restoration was carried out that saw the realization of the staircase that makes it possible today to access the square of the Tower, from which you have a suggestive and almost picturesque view of the landscape of the Ionian coast.