ABSTRACT
Already in the early decades of the sixteenth century an intense construction activity began in Spanish viceroyalty of Naples, linked to the achievement of defensive structures and determined by frequent and devastating pirate raids on the southern coasts. This architectural production, occasional but significant, transforms itself from the already Thirty years of the XVI century, with the viceroy Don Pedro de Toledo, in an overall project of restoration of government existing fortifications or building of a substantial number of new towers, testified moreover by the realization on behalf of the same viceroy of a residence complex and tower named Toledo in Pozzuoli.
