It is a funerary tower built in Roman times near Tarraco and is one of the most important funerary monuments of the Roman period still preserved in the peninsula. The tower of the Scipiones is one of the elements of the "Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco", declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It is also one of the three best-preserved Roman funerary towers on the Iberian Peninsula, together with the Torre Ciega and the Tower of Hercules.

It was built in the mid-1st century, six kilometres from the city of Tarraco, capital of Hispania Citerior, on the route of the Via Augusta, the Roman road that linked the Iberian Peninsula from the Pyrenees to Gadir.

Its structure corresponds to a turriform building, with three floors superimposed on top of each other in decreasing order. It is built with rectangular ashlars. In the middle section there are two reliefs representing the Phrygian god Atis, deity of death and resurrection, son of Pessinunte, and on the same level there is also a funerary chamber that housed the trousseau of the deceased. The base measures 4.40 by 4.70 metres.

As a curiosity, its name comes from an error in the identification of the two reliefs of the god Attis, which for years were identified as those of the Scipio brothers.