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Lambardi Tower

Via della Torre 1 , Magione, Umbria

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Located on the top of the hill on which the settlement stands, along the ancient road that led from Perugia to Lake Trasimeno and Cortona, the fortress could easily control movements along the entire road axis. Its position, from a strategic-military point of view, was so favorable that it can be hypothesized that the structure was the headquarters of the Perugian officials appointed to collect tolls from those passing through this part of the countryside in the second half of the 13th century.
The tower, between the 16th and 17th centuries, lost its military functions, becoming part of the properties held by the local community. During the 18th century and much of the following one, the building was used as a municipal kennel, while the surrounding land hosted the annual livestock fair. In the second half of the 19th century, the ruin of the ancient structure had reached such levels as to decree its definitive abandonment for safety reasons.
From the early years of the 20th century, the idea of restoring the fortress began to take hold, but many decades would pass before reaching 1983 when the restoration works began.
The name of the fortress, Torre dei Lambardi or "Torre dei Lombardi", is probably the result of oral tradition. The tower is attested with this name starting from the end of the 17th century in memory of the killing of Marcello Lombardi near it. One hypothesis about the origin of the name suggests that the word "Lambardi" can be traced back to the term used in a generic way in the Late Middle Ages to indicate the nobles of rural communities, and sees the term "Lombardi" as a subsequent outcome of the same word.

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