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Date: Late 1st century B.C.
Period: Antiquity, Middle Ages
Type : Fortified architecture
Status: Property of the City of Arles Classified as a Historic Monument (1886), Unesco World Heritage Site (1981)
At the southeast corner of the ancient rampart, the Tour des Mourgues remains the most visible and best-preserved of the circular towers that flanked the enclosure. It takes its name from the nuns (mourgues) of the monastery founded nearby by bishop Césaire in the early 6th century, of which...
Period: Antiquity, Middle Ages
Type : Fortified architecture
Status: Property of the City of Arles Classified as a Historic Monument (1886), Unesco World Heritage Site (1981)
At the southeast corner of the ancient rampart, the Tour des Mourgues remains the most visible and best-preserved of the circular towers that flanked the enclosure. It takes its name from the nuns (mourgues) of the monastery founded nearby by bishop Césaire in the early 6th century, of which...
Location
- www.patrimoine.ville-arles.fr
