In a strategic position (in direct visual relationship with the fortified village of Castiglione and the fortress of Montalfonso in Castelnuovo Garfagnana), and full of ancient buildings including some important Renaissance palaces, it develops in concentric rings of the hilly relief, on the top of which is located the medieval tower.
In the highest part of the town, you can reach the Sillico tower by crossing the ancient building fabric of the town.
The tower is part of those garrisons and small towers set up to defend the villages and along the road system, in this case of the minor viability of crossing the Apennines, these defensive structures then lost their importance in favor of the large fortified garrisons which in the ‘500 were made in Val di Serchio.
