10 stadium with a tower Some historic, others with hotels and restaurants or apartments with a view to the field

It is not very easy to be able to distinguish a stadium within a city; either it is a very large plant (therefore, even in the presence of tall buildings, it is still easy to see, like San Siro in its neighborhood), or there is a characteristic element that allows you to distinguish it. Like a tower. Like the indistinguishable one of the Franchi stadium in Florence, precisely characteristic for the presence of the Maratona Tower. It was originally a symbol of athletic endurance for marathon runners, but later, it was recognized above all as an added architectural element to break (in the geometry of the stadium) the horizontal dimension of the other stands. The Torre del Franchi is aesthetically the best known of those of the Italian stadiums, with similar examples also found in Bologna or at the Olimpico Grande Torino. Over the years, other plants have been enriched or built from scratch with one or more towers, built, in most cases, to insert a commercial district in the context of the stadium. Given the iconicity and architectural value that stadiums have taken on with towers, nss sports has selected the best examples around the world. 

1 - Artemio Franchi Stadium of Florence 

Designed and finished building between 1929 and 1932, the Franchi di Firenze (there is also another one in Tuscany, in Siena) is considered by architects a fundamental example of rationalism. The Maratona Tower stands above the Marathon grandstand and is 75 meters high (55 meters only of the tower, the rest is of the bleachers). The meaning of the construction has fascist references - the exaltation of the effort and commitment of the athletes, a canon also used for the other towers in the Italian stadiums - but the architectural value recognized to the work of Pier Luigi Nervi comes from all over the art world, being an elegant structure, imposing and perfectly integrated into the geometry of the stadium, in turn famous for the D-shaped plant form. Other important elements are the helical access stairs and the canopy that covers the central grandstand.