The Battagli Tower is part of the so-called Tomba de' Battagli, or the large fortified farm whose tower stands on the bank of the Marecchia River to protect the farm itself.

It was erected in 1229 by Balduccio Battagli (nicknamed Fusso), father of the famous Cardinal Gozio who died in 1348 in Avignon, whose coats of arms can still be seen in Rimini in the ancient little house on Via Garibaldi next to the church of S. Agnese.

In the chronicles of Rimini remains the vivid memory of the raid of the farm itself by Malatesta: "In ora de matino intrò in aguaito L (50) fanti in le selve dal pino in la capella de Santo Ermedo (S. Ermete) del contado de Arimino. Et in ora de nona (le 15) se partì due fanti cum uno somero, de quisti, ch'era in la ditta selva; et andò a San Martino in Cereto (oggi S. Martino dei Mulini) ala tomba de Fusso di Batagli; e dopo quisti dui ne venne quatro, ma era lunge assai l'uno dall'altro, e mostrò che andasse per macinare grano."

And the chronicle goes on: "Ogne omo de quella tomba was working. Eraglie uno omo de più de LXXX (80) anni, che non faceva bona guardia. Quisti asked him to drink: this man went to adurre vino; quisti entra dentro, e leva el ponte, e prendere questo omo antico, e montono nela torre, e fece fume; e quigli, c'erano in aguaito, corse subito et intronno in la dita tomba. This how it was furnished, we need not say, for there was so much grain, wine, sallata meat and linen and cloths of every raxone, that it was without number."