3D print the Torre del Mangia
A free, printable model of the Torre del Mangia, a tall tower beside a battlemented palace, and the dense buildings and open square around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Torre del Mangia
Siena, in Tuscany, Italy, is home to the Torre del Mangia, a tower built between 1338 and 1348 on the Piazza del Campo, the city's main square, beside the Palazzo Pubblico, or town hall. When it went up, it ranked among the tallest secular towers of medieval Italy. The tower stands 102 m tall, and each wall is about 3 m (9.8 ft) thick.
The tower is named for its first bellringer, a man called Giovanni di Balduccio, whose nickname was Mangiaguadagni ('Profit eater'). The nickname is said to refer to either his spendthrift tendency, idleness or gluttony. The tower was built to match the height of Siena Cathedral exactly, as a sign that church and state held equal power. A clock was added to the lower part of the shaft in 1360. Three bells hang in the tower, and the largest, the Sunto, has a notable part in the Palio celebrations.
Seen from the bottom up, the tower is made of distinct levels. A marble loggia stands at the base, below a long shaft of red brick. Higher up come a stone section that widens a little, a short upper loggia in pale gray and a marble structure at the very top. The stone part is a parapet resting on corbels, and the petal-like arches between them led writers to describe it as a tulip or a lily.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 28 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 35 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 45 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A slender shaft and thin spire
- The tall, narrow shaft ends in a small open bell chamber with a slim spire. Print slowly with good cooling, and use layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm to keep the tip crisp.
- Battlements and pointed windows
- Rows of small battlements and pointed windows run along the palace beside the tower. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- The Torre del Mangia is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Torre del Mangia takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Torre del Mangia is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Torre del Mangia STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Torre del Mangia grows with the print: about 28 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
