Between the window and the door are two escutcheons, roughly carved.

One of these bears what was originally a Genoese cross, now so battered that nobody but an antiquary could recognise it.

On the other are chiselled the arms of the family to whom the Tower belongs.

If the reader will complete this scheme of decoration by imagining several bullet marks on the escutcheons and on the window frames, he will have a fair idea of a Corsican mansion, dating from the middle ages.

I had forgotten to add that the dwelling-house adjoins the tower, and is frequently connected with it by some interior passage.
The della Rebbia house and tower stand on the northern side of the square at Pietranera.