In 1892, D'Andrade freed them from the - piled over the centuries - Renaissance houses. They are the gate of Ianua city, as stated in the epigraph of the 1100 placed in the south of the monument.

Genoa identifies itself into its Towers, build to defend an independence with their real and mithologic value.

If, through the distortion of the word argothic, we relate between them gothic e goethic, the language which drenches the Towers stones could be a clear and sublime art which speaks to everyone souls. A Book, made of words carved out of the stone, phrases in bass-relief and thoughts in ogives.