Description
The Torre dello Zuccaro is a medieval brick tower more than 42 meters tall on Via Tazzoli, a few steps from Piazza Sordello and the Ducal Palace: built in 1143, it belonged to the Bonacolsi and then, from 1328, to the Gonzaga.
You can't go inside, but it is easy to see from the street: the stern shaft and the top, rebuilt after lightning cut it short in 1540, destroying the four large windows that lit the interior. The present roof dates from 1717.
Mantuans call it in dialect “Tor dal Sücar”, the sugar tower. The name is said to come from the Zuccaro, the family that owned it between the 15th and 16th centuries.
The historian Davari thought instead of the salt stored there until 1769, called in dialect “sücar brüsc”: sour sugar.
You can't go inside, but it is easy to see from the street: the stern shaft and the top, rebuilt after lightning cut it short in 1540, destroying the four large windows that lit the interior. The present roof dates from 1717.
Mantuans call it in dialect “Tor dal Sücar”, the sugar tower. The name is said to come from the Zuccaro, the family that owned it between the 15th and 16th centuries.
The historian Davari thought instead of the salt stored there until 1769, called in dialect “sücar brüsc”: sour sugar.