The town has a couple of museums and two main churches, and in addition to a flourishing tourism sector, houses a lively art scene. But it's real claim to fame are the many stone towers sprouting out of the houses, giving rise to its nickname "the Manhattan of Italy". During the Middle Ages, there were amazingly about 75 of these giant towers, used by the town's inhabitants to wage war on each other through the centuries. Now only thirteen remain, but still sufficient to give a good idea of how bizarre the town must have looked back then. It would also be quite scary to walk the streets with these huge forts towering above.