La Tour des Pins is located Montpellier, near the Church of St. Peter and gardens Plant and Peyrou.
Standing over 20 meters, it was built around 1200 and was one of 25 towers scattered along the town's surrounding wall erected by the lord of Montpellier Guilhem VI to protect his city. The upper part of the tower, that is to say, his coronation was added to the fourteenth century.
La Tour des Pins is the Tower of Babote the last vestige of the medieval fortifications of the city, which were razed by order of Richelieu in the first half of the seventeenth.
Before the Tower had served in the wars of refuge Religion Catholics chased by the Protestant troops.
After the Revolution, the Tour des Pins was the seat of a prison, a convent and then, from 1886 to 2002, part of the municipal archives were stored there.
According to tradition, the Tour des Pins is named Nostradamus, then a professor of medicine at Montpellier, predicted the destruction of the city when two pines that had managed to push the top would have perished. This is why others would have been replanted regularly...
The building now houses the brotherhood of Barons Caravètes that brings together people born Montpellier themselves natives of the city...
A nice little park is located at its base.
The building jalonnera charm with a walk in the historic center. Information +33 4 67 60 19 24.