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The tower is visible from the outside; the inside cannot be visited.
Description
The tower and two small palaces were built by Pietro Millini in the second half of the 15th century. The ancient medieval tower, probably built in the 13th century and almost in ruins, was purchased by the noble family, appropriately restored and provided with additional windows on the 1st and 2nd floors (two on each side), as originally only the last two on the 3rd and 4th floors existed. In addition, the originally open gallery with curved crenellations and supported by double corbelled brackets was closed with a roof and the word "MILLINA", which is still clearly visible, was placed on its four sides.
On either side of the tower, two two-storey buildings were erected, with balcony windows and a rusticated portal on Via Tor Millina, which still exists (today the entrance is on Via di S. Maria dell'Anima). On the occasion of the marriage in 1491 between his son Mario and Ginevra Cybo, niece of Innocent VIII, Pietro Millini had Perin del Vaga decorate both the tower and the palaces with monochrome graffiti depicting coats of arms, candelabra, spirals, cornucopias, bucraniae and even a large coat of arms of Sixtus IV in colour: almost nothing remains of all this today.
