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The name of the building is due to the existence on its summit in origin of a dovecote tower. The palace, built in 1680 by the Duke of Bovino Inigo Guevara in honor of King Charles III of Bourbon, has an epigraph on its entrance portal on which is engraved: "so that the most welcome guest would make, during his hunting stay, nobler the rustic pastimes of the Bovinese dukes". Indeed the Palace "Torre Guevara" was born as a hunting lodge of the Guevara family, where the Bourbon kings were often guests, to the point that their interest in this holiday resort was such as to lead to the improvement of the roads of the Strada Regia delle Puglie (the current Strada Statale 90), which connected Naples to Foggia.
The building, of square base and of dimensions of 100 x 40 meters, was already reported in a map of the Vatican Museums of the end of the sixteenth century, with the name "Hunting Tower". It looks like a majestic parallelepiped with three floors with sloping roof and rectangular openings, arranged symmetrically, Vanvitellian taste. After various vicissitudes the palace in 1985 was acquired to the communal patrimony and recently has been subjected to works of consolidation, even if, because of the many decades of abandonment the structural elements and the internal decorations have been lost. It is not currently open to the public, as other measures are planned to transform it into a multifunctional centre.
