Tor Boacciana can be reached by passing along the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica on via di Tor Boacciana (direction: Fiumicino Airport), turning left before the bridge on the Tiber (Ponte della Scafa).<\/p>\n
The tower (italian \u201ctor\u201d = \u201ctorre\u201d) was built on the left bank of the Tiber in the 2nd century AD under Trajan, as brick stamps testify, right where the river flowed into the Tyrrhenian sea.<\/p>\n
According to researchers it must have been a\u00a0lighthouse<\/strong>\u00a0or a\u00a0guard tower<\/strong>\u00a0controlling the mouth of the river.<\/p>\n During the XII century the tower was probably restored: maybe is mentioned as the \u201cfabulous but isolated tower\u201d in the Chronicles about\u00a0Richard the Lionheart<\/strong>\u2019s journey to the Holy Land on the third Crusade (1190), when he disembarked at Ostia. At that time the whole area was property of the\u00a0Family Bovazzani\u00a0<\/strong>and the tower is thought to have been named after this family, hence its current name \u201cBoacciana\u201d.<\/p>\n The tower was in a state of abandon already when\u00a0Pope Innocent VII<\/strong>\u00a0had it restored in 1406, and it was subsequently completely rebuilt by\u00a0Pope Martin V\u00a0<\/strong>in 1420. Since then it has been used for different purposes. In 1562, under\u00a0Pope Pius IV<\/strong>, the tower was the seat of Papal custom-house, after the flood that moved the Tiber away from the Castle of Julius II in 1557. In 1568, due to the advancement of the shoreline, the Papal custom-house was moved again to\u00a0Tor San Michele<\/strong>, another tower started by\u00a0Michelangelo Buonarroti<\/strong>\u00a0and completed by\u00a0Giovanni Lippi<\/strong>\u00a0in 1567. For some centuries the tower remained abandoned again. At the beginning of 19th century it was used as a warehouse, whereas at the end of the same century the tower\u2019s ownership went to the\u00a0Aldobrandini<\/strong>\u00a0family who rented it to\u00a0Tancredi Chiaraluce<\/strong>, who lived there and set up a refreshment and wine selling point for hunters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tor Boacciana can be reached by passing along the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica on via di Tor Boacciana (direction: Fiumicino Airport), turning left before the bridge on the Tiber (Ponte della Scafa). The tower (italian \u201ctor\u201d = \u201ctorre\u201d) was built on the left bank of the Tiber in the 2nd century AD under Trajan,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":258,"parent":2657,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3264","siti-musei","type-siti-musei","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/siti-musei\/3264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/siti-musei"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/siti-musei"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/siti-musei\/3264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3265,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/siti-musei\/3264\/revisions\/3265"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/siti-musei\/2657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}