Mamo Tower

The Torri Mamo is a fortified tower house near the village of Marsascala Malta. It was built in 1657 by the family Mamo to protect against pirate hijacking. Over the centuries, the Torri Mamo changed more often the owner, including the Maltese Prime Minister Gerald Strickland and the British military. In the late 1980s the dilapidated buildings of the Maltese conservation organization Din l - Art Helwa has been transferred, the tower until the mid- 1990s, restored and made available to the public.

The Torri Mamo has an unusual cross-shaped floor plan on a total of 16 walls. Inside there are five rooms: four smaller in the ends of the cross and a larger in the middle. A flight of stairs, the roof is reached.

The Torri Mamo was included in the National Inventory of Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands.