Torre di Ezzelino Panorama
Climb the Torre di Ezzelino — the tallest surviving tower in the wall circuit — and you are rewarded with a 360-degree panorama that sweeps from the Euganean Hills to the flat Po Plain and, on clear winter days, all the way to the snow-capped Dolomites. It is the single best viewpoint for understanding the sheer scale of Montagnana's fortifications.
The Tower Itself
The Torre di Ezzelino rises roughly 28 metres from the southwestern corner of the walls and is named — apocryphally — after the brutal 13th-century warlord Ezzelino III da Romano, though the current structure dates from the Carrara expansion of the 1360s.
The interior staircase is narrow and steep (around 100 steps), but the stone parapet at the top is wide enough to walk around comfortably, with chest-high merlons framing every photograph you take.
What You See
Looking inward, the compact grid of the old town resolves into a pattern of terracotta roofs, the Duomo's Renaissance dome and the green rectangle of the main piazza. The rectangular footprint of the walls is immediately legible from this height — you see exactly why military historians rate Montagnana's fortifications so highly.
Looking outward on a clear day, the Euganean Hills rise to the northeast like a rumpled green blanket, and the flat agricultural plain extends south toward the Po delta, striped with irrigation channels that catch the light like silver threads.
Best Time to Visit
Late October to February offers the highest chance of Dolomite visibility; the Alps appear as a faint white serration on the northern horizon roughly 120 km away. Bring binoculars.
Sunset visits in summer are spectacular — the brick walls glow orange-red and the shadow of the tower stretches dramatically across the moat meadow below. The tower is sometimes open for special evening events during the Palio dei 10 Comuni festival in September.
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