Coastal towers in Salento

Salento, in southern Italy, is dotted with watchtowers which were constructed to sight seaborne invaders, including those coming from Turkey.^[1] Many of the towers were built in the 16th century.^[2] The towers come in a variety of designs, including a truncated cone, a truncated pyramid, a fortified masserie, a tower masserie, and a closed-courtyard Masseria.^[3] After their initial function as lookout posts for sighting seaborne threats became redundant, many of the towers were either "abandoned or used as a place to store agricultural tools".^[4] Subsidence has affected the tower structures.^[5]

This is the list in a clockwise direction from the province of Brindisi and culminating in the province of Taranto.