Tour aux Raines

Vire, Calvados, France

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Designation: Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection: inscrit MH
Extent of protection: Tour aux Raines : inscription par arrêté du 6 août 1951
Protection dates: 1951/08/06 : inscrit MH
Type: édifice fortifié
Main period of construction: 1ère moitié 14e siècle
Ownership: propriété d'une association
Commune: Vire
Département: Calvados
Region: Normandie
Country: France
Coordinates: 48.83673, -0.88959
Mérimée reference: PA00111819

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1767 map "95 Vire, Avranches." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Ancien Hôtel-Dieuhôtel-Dieuunder 1 mi
Tour Saint-Sauveurédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
Hôtel de villehôtel de villeunder 1 mi
Église Notre-Dameégliseunder 1 mi

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0

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