Pigeon tower Château de Beauregard

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Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 42.9 "  N , 2 ° 9 ′ 47"  E

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Pigeon tower of the Château de Beauregard
Interior view with pigeon nests

The pigeon tower (French colombier or pigeonnier ) of the Château de Beauregard in Saint-Jean-de-Beauregard , a French commune in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region , was built in the 17th century.

description

The pigeon tower has been on the list of architectural monuments in France as part of the castle as a Monument historique since 1993 .

The round tower made of quarry stone is crowned by a lantern . The 4500 pigeon nests are still preserved inside. A rotating staircase made it possible to get the pigeon dung out of the nests to use it as fertilizer.

See also

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de l'Essonne. Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-126-0 , p. 815.

Web links

Commons : Pigeon tower Château de Beauregard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Château de Beauregard in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)