Tour de l'Archet

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Tour de l'Archet
Tour de l'Archet

Tour de l'Archet

Creation time : 10-12th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: restored
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Morgex
Geographical location 45 ° 45 '0 "  N , 7 ° 1' 59.9"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 45 '0 "  N , 7 ° 1' 59.9"  E
Height: 930  m slm
Tour de l'Archet (Aosta Valley)
Tour de l'Archet

The Tour de l'Archet is a castle in the Aosta Valley and is located in the municipality of Morgex in Italy .

history

The name of this castle, built between the 10th and 12th centuries, is derived from that of the old L'Archet family (formerly De Arculo ), who came from Aosta , where they adapted the Arch of Augustus to their residence.

This is where the Centro studi storico-letterari Natalino Sapegno Foundation and the Caricature Library for the preservation and examination of the 30,000 pieces in the Mafrica Collection are located.

  • Inner courtyard with a transparent roof

  • Sapegno Foundation archive

description

Only a tower and a basic permanent house remain from the original building . The building is crenellated and shows a stone portal on one side, on the lintel of which a double arch with a small, stone cross window and the coat of arms of the House of Savoy is carved above.

Floor plan of the Tour de l'Archet from 1936 (Carlo Nigra)

The Tour de l'Archet is similar in many respects to other towers in the Aosta Valley, such as the Torre de la Plantaz in Gressan and the Tour de Ville in Arnad : the walls of remarkable thickness (over 2 meters), the massive construction and the construction, so the use of sandwich walls with a core made of cast masonry . The researcher of castle construction in the Aosta Valley, André Zanotto , assumes that towers one and three rose on a flat ground and thus had no natural defensive aspects. Also Mauro Cortellazzo , the long takes, is of the same opinion:

“The Tour Malluquin in Courmayeur , the Tour de l'Archet in Morgex, the Tour Lescours in La Salle , the Torre de la Plantaz and the Torre di Sant'Anselmo in Gressan, the recently discovered tower in the Castello di Fénis , the Torre di Néran in Châtillon , the Torre di Ville in Arnad and two other towers in the side valleys, the Torre di Vachéry in Etroubles and the Tour d'Hérères in Perloz . All these towers were built in places that do not have any morphological element to facilitate defense. On the contrary: the choice of flat locations, open and not always close to roads, seems clear. All of these ten structures are characterized by their particular choice of location. "

  • Detail of the tower

  • Detail of the coat of arms carved into one of the cross windows

  • The entrance gate

  • Side facade

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ apre il bibliomuseo del fumetto . In: La Stampa . July 26, 2014. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  2. ↑ André Zanotto: Castelli valdostani . Musumeci, Quart (1980) 2002. ISBN 88-7032-049-9 . P. 9.
  3. ↑ Mauro Cortellazzo: Simbologia del potere e possesso del territorio: le torri valdo stane tra XI e XIII secolo . In: Bulletin d'études préhistoriques et archeologiques alpines, Numéro spécial consacré aux Actes du XIIe Colloquesur les Alpes dans l'Antiquité. Yenne / Savoie 2-4 octobre 2009 (par les soins de Damien Daudry) . 2010. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2020.

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  • André Zanotto: Castelli valdostani . Musumeci, Quart (1980) 2002. ISBN 88-7032-049-9 .
  • Mauro Cortellazzo: Simbologia del potere e possesso del territorio: le torri valdostane tra XI e XIII secolo . In: Bulletin d'études préhistoriques et archeologiques alpines, Numéro spécial consacré aux Actes du XIIe Colloquesur les Alpes dans l'Antiquité. Yenne / Savoie 2-4 octobre 2009 (par les soins de Damien Daudry) . 2010. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  • Mauro Minola, Beppe Ronco: Valle d'Aosta. Castelli e fortificazioni . Macchione, Varese 2002. ISBN 88-8340-116-6 . P. 58.
  • Carlo Nigra: Torri e castelli e case forti del Piemonte dal 1000 al secolo XVI. La Valle d'Aosta . Musumeci, Quart 1974. p. 107.

Web links

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