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The Aragonese Tower

The Aragonese Tower (around it there is a graveyard) was built thanks to Alphonso I of Aragon in the 15th century.
It was a look-out and fortified tower against Saracene incursions.
It is square shape with ground and two floors. The tower is set up a square basement of 60 square metres.
The only entrance was a wooden bridge. A staircase leads on the first vaulted floor with three loopholes. Here happened

lightnings, which through a fireplace, announced sea dangers.
 

The second floor is surrounded by a high flat head battlement and it is aligned along the patrol walk. This was the point for the best supervision and defence. 
In 1874 nearby the tower a graveyard was built and in churches sepulchres were walled. Here first only shipwrecked and plague suspected corpses, interdicted people by the Church, cholera pestilences victims of 1836/37 and 1854 were buried. Since then the tower has been a place for peace, prayer and meditation. You can see it from the sea and many places of the island.