From the tower in San Ginignano one can see all of the surrounding landscape. When I stood there it was windy and the clouds flew past in the sky above. Tuscany is a country of hills.
Before aviation, towers must have seemed like the only way in which man might look down on the world. They would offer the closest thing to a map of the surrounding land. It is no wonder that towers and mountains were associated with wisdom and worship. With sight of what lies below comes power.
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