Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour penchée de la Vermondie
Thonac, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour penchée de la Vermondie : inscription par arrêté du 29 décembre 1941
- Protection dates
- 1941/12/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- Gallo-romain (?)
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Thonac
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.02965, 1.09515
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083020
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Selon une légende locale, la tour se pencha pour permettre à deux amants de se retrouver.
English translation
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History
According to local legend, the tower leaned over to allow two lovers to meet.
Nearby in the register
- Cimetièrecimetière1 mi
- Église Saint-Léonceéglise1 mi
- Gisement préhistorique de La Rochettesite archéologique1 mi
- Château de Lossechâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.