From La Rocca you can take a panoramic stroll across to the Second Tower, sometimes known as Cesta or Fratta. Built at an elevation of 756m (2480ft) on Mount Titano, it's the highest-standing of the fortresses, and dates back to the 13th century. It mirrors the pentagonal shape of La Rocca and, like that tower, was also used as a prison. You get the feeling that, for a small republic the size of a few suburbs, it sure had a lot of penal activity and penitence going on.
The San Marino Museum of Antique Weapons is housed in what was formerly the guardrooms and castle-keepers' rooms. The collection of sharp pointy objects that constitute the quaint medieval notion of a killing machine includes swords, knives, lances, firearms, bows and crossbows. There's also armour to protect oneself from the sharp pointy objects. More than 500 objects follow the history of weaponry from the late 800s to medieval times.
Other pieces of the collection, which numbers over 1550 objects, can be found at the descriptively (albeit prolixly) named Centre for Studies on Weaponry from the Middle Ages to the 1900s at the nearby township of Borgo Maggiore.
