Tours of the Montlhéry Tower

Name: Visites de la Tour de Montlhéry
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Tour de Montlhéry

You can climb the 138 steps of the millennium keep on September 16 and 17....

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

Mairie de Montlhéry

You can climb the 138 steps of the thousand-year-old keep on September 16 and 17. La Geste de l'Hurepoix offers medieval activities such as archery, medieval dance, calligraphy, forging, pottery, costume making and games.

Types d'événement

Visite libre

Thèmes 2023

Patrimoine vivant

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

À propos du lieu

Tour de Montlhéry

Allée de la Tour 91310 Montlhéry

Essonne
Île-de-France

High place of the history of France, theatre of clashes between the first Capetians and the rebellious lords of the Ile-de-France, the tower, only vestige of the castle, remains a significant witness to the constructive processes and ambitions of a military architecture developed under Philippe Auguste. Admirably situated on a hill that dominates the city, it occupied a strategic position of control of the road of Orléans, major axis of the royal domain in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It was also used in the 19th century for scientific research. Experiments were carried out on the calculation of the speed of sound and light and served as a relay for the Chappe Telegraph (extract from "Le château de Montlhéry", Itinéraire du patrimoine n°238, ADAGP, 2001).