Above the entrance was a rectangular stone, decorated with floral elements, which inscribed two quadrilateral surfaces, one of which had heraldic insignia.

The western façade of the second floor was dominated by a beam and the pisanie supported on two adjacent columns framing a window.

The shorter third floor had a closed balcony with a balustrade, made of stone parapets on the surfaces of which three motifs alternated: the Cantacuzine eagle, a floral ornament, and another with a vase of flowers.

[6] The tower was built between 1709 and 1714, its construction being assisted by the Swedish soldiers of the army of King Charles XII, who had fled to Wallachia after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Poltava.

[3] This is also confirmed by Franz Josef Sulzer [ro], who wrote in 1787 that the soldiers who worked on the tower were hosted by Constantin Brâncoveanu following the battle of Poltava.

[7] The name of the tower also reminds of Colonel Sandu Colțea, who was the commander of a Wallachian Regiment (Vallackregementet).