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Unseen and detached from its original church, a centuries-old bell tower can be found inside the small yard between two mid-century apartment complexes.
It is impossible to find this bell tower for those who don't know where to look. Between street numbers 1 and 3 in Vicolo Santa Caterina, there is a gate that shows the small apartment building garden. There, between houseplants and watering cans, stands a Romanic bell tower. Probably it was built in 1329 in a simple Romanic style, made of bricks with its mullioned windows. The bell tower and its Santa Caterina D'alessandria Church stayed together from the 14th century until the 18th century when a baroque craving hit the whole city and forced all the churches to a re-styling. Santa Caterina Church was rebuilt from 1726 to 1762, but the bell tower at the back of the complex was left untouched.
