Alatri is definitely the city of walls and towers.
Throughout the outer walls are often found bases of towers with arrow openings or towers which are still at full height, but they never exceed the level of the most recent homes built on the base of the circuit of walls.
They remained almost intact in the Torricelle area, towards Alatri, which also corresponds to the best militarily equipped part of towers, while the walls in the northeast part have been modified.
In the nineteenth century, scholar G. Ricciotti counted fourteen towers in all, probably including those within the walls.
(Elisa Potenziani)
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