Island Tower

Traditionally known as "The Tomato Tower" or "Island Tower" of Isola d'Arbia, the former I.D.I.T. plant (Isola Tressa Dehydration Industry) is to all intents and purposes an example of industrial archeology. At the gates of the Val d'Orcia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and inserted within a landscape that symbolizes Tuscany in the world, the iron, glass and concrete silo, more than seventy meters high, stands out in the center of the Via Francigena and let it be observed from any vantage point south of Siena.
Representation of a great dream of economic recovery, the I.D.I.T. Tower is part of the collective imagination of a recovering Italy, ready to invest and with such foresight as to challenge, sacrificing the most rooted and secular peasant culture of the Sienese countryside, even those who didn't look kindly on industrial development in a territory so far from the great entrepreneurship of northern Italy.
The building was inaugurated in 1961 but its activity ceased in 1966.