The tower was built around 1560-1570, in the territory of this municipality (at that time called Casalnuovo) and, more precisely, in the fief “Comunale,” also known as “Concordato” (see the Onciario Land Registry of Manduria from 1756, the Salentine Atlas by Giuseppe Pacelli, 1803, and also A.S.NA., Various Notaries, fs.205, inc.1: Acts of offer by F.S. Frammarino for the purchase of the allodial fief of Manduria, formerly Casalnuovo, “Appraisal of the fief” drafted by Engineer F. Viti on February 22, 1804, cc. 43v.-59r.).
Left abandoned to the elements for many centuries, the tower was crumbling. The roof collapsed in the first half of the 20th century, and for the years that followed, the center of the structure was overtaken by Mediterranean scrub and fig trees. In 2011 and for the next two years, it underwent a complete restoration and the construction of a new staircase. The tower has been restored to its original state.
