Tour Vauban

The Vauban Tower or Tower of Camaret is a arisen under Vauban defense building in Camaret -sur- Mer on the west coast of Brittany.

The hexagonal tower stands on a small, the place Camaret upstream Peninsula and has at 18 meters four floors. It has been studied since 1683 by Vauban, commissioned in 1689 and carried out from 1693 to 1697 under the supervision of Jean -Pierre Traverse.

Purpose of the construction was the roadstead of Brest ( frz: Rade de Brest) to protect against a possible attack. For this purpose, the tower over eleven guns, a cannon ball fired oven and a semi-circular protective wall. 1694 the tower played an important role in the successful defense against an invasion attempt by English and Dutch units.

Since 1907, the tower is run as a monument. Since 2008 he is with the other fortifications of Vauban part of the UNESCO World Heritage List. Today it is owned by the municipality of Camaret.

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• The Vauban Tower by Chemins de Memoire
• The Vauban Tower by Chemins de Memoire (French )
• The Vauban tower in the base Mérimée