The tower of Cala Moresca is a coastal tower located in the municipality of Monte Argentario. Its location is along the north-western coastal stretch of the Argentario promontory, on a small hill overlooking the homonymous cove, reachable from the coastal scenic road.
The tower was built by the Spaniards in the second half of the sixteenth century to strengthen the defensive system along the coast of the State of the Presidi.
Compared to other defensive structures along the promontory, for uncertain causes this tower assumed an increasingly marginal role over time, so much so that in some maps of the eighteenth century is completely omitted. Just at the end of that century the tower was already abandoned, so that the underlying cove turned out to be a weak point during some pirate raids in the following years.
The rapid deterioration of the structure has been rendered inexorable even by the full exposure of the place to the winds that have contributed to determine rapid erosive phenomena of the building structures.
The tower of Cala Moresca comes in the form of ruins, where it is still well preserved the pedestal with a quadrangular plan, with walls covered in stone, which in its entirety looks like an imposing truncated pyramid block.
Above the cord that delimits the base at the top, there are only very few remains of the walls that formed the upper part of the coastal tower, which originally developed on three levels with slits at various heights to allow the development of active defense functions .
It is currently undergoing severe deterioration and would require at least a conservative restoration.
