Tour de Madeloc
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Tour de Madeloc
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| Place: | Madeloc mountain , Collioure and Port-Vendres commune | ||||
| Department: | Pyrénées-Orientales | ||||
| Region: | Occitania | ||||
| Country: | France | ||||
| Coordinates: 42 ° 29 ′ 26.2 " N , 3 ° 4 ′ 28.8" E | |||||
| Use: | Telecommunications tower | ||||
| Accessibility: | Broadcast tower accessible by appointment | ||||
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| Construction time : | Late 13th century | ||||
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| Operating time: | since the end of the 13th century | ||||
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| Send type: | Directional radio | ||||
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The Tour de Madeloc or Tour Madeloc is a medieval watchtower in the hinterland of the Côte Vermeille in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the old cultural landscape of Roussillon .
location
The Tour Madeloc is located on a 670 m high mountain peak in the hinterland of Banyuls-sur-Mer ; From here you have a view over large parts of the coastline of the Golfe du Lion up to Narbonne on a clear day . Just about four kilometers to the northwest is another watchtower from the same period - the Tour de la Massane .
history
The tower was built in the late 13th century by the Mallorcan King Jaume II as a watchtower and to secure the coast. With the Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659, it lost all strategic importance. As early as the first half of the 20th century it was used as a location for a radio relay station.
architecture
The only little hewn stone- walled circular tower has no windows; the stairs and rooms in its interior are only illuminated through slits similar to loopholes. Its upper edge is surrounded by numerous cantilevered consoles that formerly supported a wooden battlement .
