Centum Cellas

To get to Centum Cellas, a well-preserved Roman tower, follow the main road from Belmonte towards Guarda. About 1.5km/1mi north of the center of Belmonte a signposted road bears off to the right and in about 200m/220yd comes to the remains of the tower which stands in the middle of fields. Centrum Cellas was built square in plan, with two stories and a crenellated roof and may have been just a watch tower, or have served in the A.D. second century as a place of banishment for the Roman Bishop Cornelius.