The Cabrera Tower is a tower built to protect the Pozzallo Charger from pirates (i.e. a complex of warehouses on the coast complete with piers and slips for loading goods onto sailing ships).
The Tower stands, shining and magnificent, on the cliffs of the Pozzallo coast. It was built in the early fifteenth century at the behest of the Count of Modica, Bernat Cabrera, a member of one of the most illustrious Catalan families, the Viscounts Cabrera and Bas and Counts of Osona, who supported and financed the Spanish sovereigns in the reconquest of Sicily and in exchange had the county of Modica confiscated from the rebels of the Chiaramonte family.
The square-plan building with a side measuring approximately 20 meters and a height of 28 meters from the street level, consists of three floors plus the terrace which currently lacks battlements. On the outside it preserves the sixteenth-century escarpment bastion, which juts out into the sea with the imposing terrace, equipped with troniere for maneuvering the artillery pieces required by the needs of Sicily's defensive system in the Mediterranean, a sea of ​​raids and conflicts. Following recent restorations, it has been demonstrated that it is not a defense tower but a "palacium" which combined the function of a noble residence with that of a control point for grain and goods which, coming from all parts of eastern Sicily, were loaded by the shipper.
Soldiers and artillerymen served inside the tower, while the knights were in charge of guarding the coast. Cannons of different calibers were placed on the terraces. The tower was heavily damaged by an earthquake in 1693. It was rebuilt by making some changes to the original project, thus giving it the status of "National Monument" to this day.