The Civic Tower (Torre Civica) was a tower built in the Italian city of Pavia in the 11th century, next to Pavia Cathedral. Built to a rectangular footprint, it was 78 metres high.[1]
Between 1583 and 1585 the architect Pellegrino Tibaldi led works to add a room at the top of the tower to house the Cathedral's bells, which it did until it was moved to a campanile of the Cathedral.[2] On 17 March 1989, at 8.55am, the Civic Tower collapsed, leaving 8,000 cubic metres of brick, sand and granite rubble.[3] The collapse killed four people and injured fifteen.[4] It has not been rebuilt, though some elements from it are now on show at the city's Castello Visconteo.[2]