Tour de la Porte de Cers

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Tour de la Porte de Cers in Avignonet-Lauragais
Drawing by Paul-Jean-Pierre Gélibert with the fortifications of Avignonet-Lauragais (1835/38)

The Tour de la Porte de Cers (also known as the Powder Tower ) in Avignonet-Lauragais , a French commune in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region , was built in 1356. The round tower has been on the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique since 1965 .

The tower is the only remnant of the former city fortifications, which were built after the arson by Edward of Woodstock in 1355 .

The round tower made of quarry stone masonry is the rest of a fortified gate system. It is crowned by a stone roof in the shape of a cone .

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. ↑ Tour de la Porte de Cers in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 43 ° 21 '57.85 "  N , 1 ° 47' 16.26"  O