Tower Prendiparte, Bologna Italy

Tower Prendiparte, Bologna Italy
144 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

The default setting for this puzzle is 300 pieces, but you can choose from a variety numbers. I've done a couple of puzzles with that many pieces and it just takes forever. 100 to 150 pieces is more comfortable. It was a very challenging puzzle. The only pieces that I could identify by sight were ones for the tower and the large building with the big windows in the lower left corner corner. After that, it was just try and find place where they fit. Once I got maybe 75% done, there were enough restrictions that I could identify pieces by shape and it went much smoother. The title didn't give any clue as to just where this tower is. A little Google got me to Bologna, where it was easy enough to locate the tower.

Bologna Italy Tower

The angle isn't quite right, and the viewpoint elevation is a little low, but this view is pretty close to the image used for the puzzle. 

Identifying this particular tower was a little tougher. There are a bunch of medieval stone towers in Bologna Italy. At one time there may have been more than 100. Now there are fewer than 20. They are not all marked on Google Maps. However, at least some of them are labeled on Wikimapia, which is where I finally found the name. It is now a hotel and might be the largest one room hotel in the world. I don't think there are any windows.