Pigeon tower (caignac)

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Pigeon tower in Caignac (2014)

The pigeon tower (French colombier or pigeonnier ) in Caignac , a French commune in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region , was built between 1513 and 1534. The pigeon tower has been on the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique since 1932 .

The pigeon tower is the only surviving structure of the former commander of the Order of St. John . The pigeon house was built on a substructure made of pointed arched brick arcades . In 2014 the structure was in ruin.

See also

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Haute-Garonne. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-081-7 , p. 1123.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pigeonnier de Caignac in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 43 ° 18 ′ 39.6 "  N , 1 ° 43 ′ 22.12"  E