Part of the city walls was also used as a palace by the counts of the Pandone family
According to tradition the tower, also known as Palazzo Caracciolo di Miranda after the last feudal lords of Venafro, was built in the fourteenth century by Duchess Maria of Durazzo. An integral part of the defensive system of the lower city, it was located near one of the gates, corresponding to the main connecting roads and the strategic Market Square.
New interventions on the building, aimed at transforming it into a palace, were carried out at the time of Count Francesco Pandone and his heirs, feudal lords of the city between 1443 and 1528. Surrounded by a moat and equipped with loopholes for defense, it seems that the tower also had a public purpose, as the residence of the governor's curia at the end of the 16th century.
In the 19th century, the transformations of the area saw the demolition of the walls and the burying of the moat and the lower part of the tower. Two sixteenth-century doors with lowered arches are still visible, with framing and engraved vegetal decorations of a classical style.
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