Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour de Nonza ou de Torra
Nonza, Haute-Corse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La tour : inscription par arrêté du 5 juillet 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/07/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété publique
- Lieu-dit
- Torra
- Commune
- Nonza
- Département
- Haute-Corse
- Region
- Corse
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.78509, 9.34363
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099219
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1783 map "Corse." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tour est entourée de vestiges de murs qui devaient former une sorte de bastion. Elle est est couverte par une voûte en arc de cloître, et présente un couronnement formé de créneaux avec mâchicoulis.
English translation
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History
The tower is surrounded by remains of walls which must have formed a sort of bastion. It is covered by a cloister vault, and presents a crowning formed of crenellations with machicolations.
Nearby in the register
- Église Sainte-Julieégliseunder 1 mi
- Site archéologique de la Grotta Scrittasite archéologique1 mi
- Tour d'Albo, dite aussi d'Olchini ou del Grecoédifice fortifié2 mi
- Tour de Negroédifice fortifié2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.