The Civic Tower, better known as the Clock Tower, was built on the initiative of the municipality in 1473, then called “Universitas”. The mayor De Piczonis, or De Piccione, supervised the project, affixing his own coat of arms on the building. The tower bears the oldest representation of Trani's coat of arms: a winged dragon encircling a taurine head in its paw and supporting a tower on its back. Gabriele Gentile, an upright administrator, completed the tower at his own expense, placing a clock that chimed first the quarters and then the hours, believed to be among the oldest in the Kingdom of Naples.