Tower of the southwest corner of the city wall, defended by arrow slits (single firing slot) and crossbows (cruciform slot). The tower owes its name to the mounted gendarmerie who used it as a hayloft in the 19th century.
Description
It is the largest in diameter of the towers built new in the 1370s, during the reconstruction of the enclosure financed by the Community of Inhabitants in the context of the Hundred Years' War. Two of the four arrow slits on level 1 were adapted into arquebusiers during the Wars of Religion (c. 1562), but these were filled in. The machicolations were truncated when the current roof was installed in 1826.
Attached to the Gras hospital until the Revolution, it was then included in a complex comprising the mounted gendarmerie, the court and the prison until the transfer of the gendarmerie in 1929 to the Route du Signavous (Avenue Jean Moulin).
It is classified as a Historic Monument by the 1875 list.
Rates / opening
Opening
All year, every day.