Torre di Capo Rama, Tower in Italy

Torre di Capo Rama is a 15th-century watchtower on a rocky headland along the coast of Terrasini. The circular stone structure with two entrances rises above the jagged shoreline and is now part of a nature reserve managed by the WWF-Sicilia Nord Occidentale organization.

The tower was built around 1405 by Martino the Young, King of Sicily, as part of a coastal defense system of eleven towers near Palermo. It monitored ships and warned of pirates from North Africa who regularly attacked the coast.

The name's origin is debated: it may come from the Sicilian "agghiannuni", a large acorn, recalling the grove of spiny oak (Quercus coccifera) of which a few dozen specimens survive as relict vegetation in the reserve; the military map records the spot as Aglianarone. Others trace it to the Arabic root rwm, "to be high", fitting the 32-metre promontory.

The tower stands on the tip of the Capo Rama promontory inside Zone A of the Capo Rama Oriented Nature Reserve, in the municipality of Terrasini. It is reached from the Terrasini exit of the A29 Palermo-Mazara del Vallo motorway. The structure is propped up in its vault and entering is extremely dangerous; it has no current use.

The tower's access was a wooden ladder simply leaned against the wall, as shown in one of Tiburzio Spannocchi's watercolours of 1578; on the paved roof stood a pole for signals. Spannocchi also recommended redoing the roof paving because water was seeping into the room below.