Torre Pozzillo, Historical tower in Cinisi, Italy

Torre Pozzillo is a defensive tower on Sicily's coast, built with thick walls and strategic openings for monitoring the sea. The structure displays the typical defensive design intended to repel intruders from the water.

The tower was built to protect Sicily's coast from pirates and enemy fleets threatening from the Mediterranean. This construction belonged to a large network of watchtowers that developed over centuries.

Locals call the site "Puzziddu", the name of the spot where the tower stands at the junction for Punta Raisi airport. The tower kept watch over a bay where, as Camillo Camilliani noted in 1584, "25 galleys could hide". Its guards were called torrari, and in 1811 the garrison was arrested for cowardice after failing to aid an American ship attacked by pirates.

The tower stands at the Puzziddu junction off the motorway to Punta Raisi airport, in the Cinisi municipal territory. It belongs to the State property and is walled up, so the interior cannot be entered; the ground-floor opening has been forced open repeatedly. It is visible from the road and the surrounding land.

In 1811 the tower's garrison was arrested for cowardice: it failed to come to the aid of an American vessel attacked by pirates. The tower appears in Bourbon army cartography in 1823 under the name "torre nuova", and in 1867 it was listed among military works to be decommissioned.