According to historians, the Torre di Creggio, standing in the municipality of Trontano, dates from the 13-14th century. Built in ashlar Beola stones, it was erected to fill a gap in the chain of signalling towers along the Ossola Valley plain.
Torre di Creggio has an irregular profile and is a symbol that combines mysticism and mystery. On the ground floor is an elegantly furnished entry hall with the main entrance located on the east side, while on the west side there is another entrance leading to the “escape route”, a stairway outside the building connecting to a path that descends to the valley through the wood below the tower.
The floors have shared characteristics dating from when the tower was converted into dwellings in the 17th and 18th centuries. A very steep wooden ladder leads to the terrace above the fourth floor. The top floor with crenellations was used by the watch sentries on lookout duty and to receive and send messages.
Torre di Creggio is now private property and can be visited only from the outside. It is, however, indissolubly linked to the events of the life of Fra’ Dolcino, the heretic condemned to stake mentioned by Dante in his Divine Commedy. In fact, legend tells that he was born or that he took refuge – sources are conflicting on this subject – precisely in the Torre di Creggio.
It is not therefore possible to discover its interior, but the best way to admire it, even if passing rapidly by it, is on board the trains of the Vigezzina-Centovalli railway, the route of which runs alongside this place so full of history and mystery.
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