The “Moro” Tower The Tower is located in the city center of Orvieto, along the main road of the town commonly called “corso”. At the end of the 13th century, Orvieto underwent a drastic change in its urban structure and saw the collocation of Palazzo dei Sette, together with the tower—47 meters high, known at the time as the Tower of the Pope, almost perfectly aligned with the four cardinal points—moved to a more strategical and central position. The imposing height of the towering building allowed, in fact, a dominating view of the then vast territory under the state administration of Orvieto. In the 16th century, the tower acquired the name of its owner, Raffaele (Gualtiero) di Sante, called Il Moro, who also gave his name to Palazzo Gualtiero, the building beneath, and to the entire city district. In 1865, a water tank—conceived of as part of the new aqueduct—was placed at the height of 18 meters inside the tower, and after some work of restoration carried out in 1866, a mechanical clock and two civic bells were installed. The smallest bell came from another tower, the Torre di Sant’Andrea, and the largest one from Palazzo del Popolo. Both Palazzo dei Sette and Torre del Moro, recently restored and transformed into a cultural center, belonged to the ancient Della Terza family. It then passed to the Papal State, and hosted the seat of the seven magistrates of the town guilds and the Pope, and it seems that even the architect Antonio da Sangallo lived there.