Perched on a 25-metre-high rocky spur, the Tour Carrée de Roquemaure still dominates the Rhodanian city, 800 years after its construction. It was for a long time a simple part of a castle that dominated, above all, a lock of the Rhone, a point of passage obligatory for merchants and ships. The square tower throned on Roquemaure for centuries • CD From the 11th century, the Counts of Toulouse made it a lucrative toll post, entrusted to their vass…
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Perched on a 25-metre-high rocky spur, the Tour Carrée de Roquemaure still dominates the Rhodanian city, 800 years after its construction. It was for a long time a simple part of a castle that dominated, above all, a lock of the Rhone, a point of passage obligatory for merchants and ships. The square tower throned on Roquemaure for centuries • CD From the 11th century, the Counts of Toulouse made it a lucrative toll post, entrusted to their vass…