Langres, City of Art and History

SAINT DIDIER TOWER
Listed Building - Early 15th century.
52000 LANGRES
GPS : 47.86364,5.330469

Tel. : 03 25 87 67 67
Fax : 03 25 87 73 33
Mail : info@tourisme-langres.com

The St Didier tower is the best-conserved mediaeval fortification in Langres. Its three superimposed rooms, its openings, and its roof, restored to original condition, give a fairly good impression of how the other towers of the period, since modified or destroyed, might have looked. Its role was to defend the immediate flanks of the Bouliere gate. During the Ancien Regime the last floor served as a tribunal for the four captains to the mace, whose role was to judge crimes committed on the ramparts. Facing the Bonnelle valley, a niche housed a statue of St Didier, Bishop of Langres in the middle of the fourth century, martyred, according to legend, by the Vandals.



Telephone mobile
03 25 87 67 67

Dates and Times of opening
Free access all the year.

Prices
No admission charge.