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Montale Tower (Third Tower)
Montale Tower, the smallest and most isolated of the three towers of San Marino, sits on the southernmost peak of Mount Titano surrounded by dense pine woods. Constructed in the fourteenth century strictly as a lookout post and solitary prison, Montale features a single narrow entrance located high above ground level and a dark subterranean dungeon known as the 'Il Torricino' accessed only through a hole in the floor. Closed to the public interior access, Montale is considered by locals to be the most sinister of the three towers, where visitors on the surrounding forest trail report hearing muffled screams, scratching from beneath the ground, and feeling an eerie sensation of intense dread.