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The Tour du Guet is a 13th-century watchtower. It is 39 metres high and features a dovecote for carrier pigeons. The tower dates from 1214, when Philip I, Count of Boulogne built fortifications in the town. Damaged by a 1580 earthquake, it was used as alighthouse until 1848, when it became a watch tower. During World War I, it served as a military post.

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• Built probably in the 13th century, this tower is the oldest monument in Calais. The origin of this tower has never been irrefutably clarified. The most likely hypothesis is that it would have been part of the defensive system (including the ramparts of the time) built by Count Philippe de Hurepel. It was from this tower that, in 1347, Jean de Vienne, Governor of the city, informed the Calaisians of the conditions set by Edward III of England for the surrender of the city after a siege of... Read more Built probably in the 13th century, this tower is the oldest monument in Calais. The origin of this tower has never been irrefutably clarified. The most likely hypothesis is that it would have been part of the defensive system (including the ramparts of the time) built by Count Philippe de Hurepel. It was from this tower that, in 1347, Jean de Vienne, Governor of the city, informed the Calaisians of the conditions set by Edward III of England for the surrender of the city after a siege of almost 11 months. The population was gathered on the place d'armes at the foot of the tower, and it was from its ranks that the Bourgeois of Calais came out. In 1580, an earthquake shook the town and caused half the tower to collapse. In 1696, the English fleet hit it, causing a new division with a notable modification, the appearance of the iron ramp. Intended to serve as a lookout, the tower was fitted with an oil-powered revolving lantern in 1818, and served as a telegraph relay and lighthouse until 1848. The 38-metre-high summit was fitted with a glass cage that still existed before the bombings of the Second World War. While more than 70% of Calais was destroyed at the end of the Second World War, the tower was spared during world conflicts. At the top, the historic blue and white flag of Calais flies. Show less
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La Tour du Guet est le plus vieux monument de Calais.Son origine remonte au XIII ème siècle, ou elle faisait du système défensif du Calais fortifié, avec le rôle de veiller et prévenir des dangers.

Avec ses 35 mètres de hauteur cette tour du 13ème siècle était le centre d'un château médiéval.

Nous ne connaissons pas l'origine de la tour mais certains avancent qu'elle serait une des « tour à feu » que charlemagne fit édifier vers 810 pour protéger les côtes contre les invasions Normandes. Pour d'autres elle fut érigée vers 1229.

En 1580, suite à un tremblement de terre, elle menace de s'éffondrer . Comme son nom l'indique, la tour abrita des guetteurs jusqu'à 1905. En temps de guerre, ils surveillaient les côtes et le mouvement des troupes.

Ensuite elle servit de phare, puis de liaison téléphonique . Elle résista au déluge des bombardements que subit Calais lors de la seconde guerre mondiale.

En 1931, la tour est classée monument historique. Ne répondant pas aux normes de sécurité, il nous est impossible de la visiter.

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Trônant fièrement dans le bourg de ce charmant village, poussez les portes de la tour de guet qui offre un point de vue imprenable sur les paysages environnants. Rénovée récemment les pièces de cet édifice ponctueront votre ascension via l'escalier en colimaçon qui vous offrira la vue à 360° et ses tables d'orientation. [Accès libre l'été, demander les clés à la mairie en hors saison.]

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Au pied de la tour, visitez le jardin médiéval qui regroupe près de 70 espèces. Médicinales, alimentaires, tinctoriales ou d'ornement, grâce au livret de visite, découvrez les secrets de ces plantes qui poussent au coeur du village. [ Accès libre toute l'année.]

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Nizhny Tagil city, Russia

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Nizhny Tagil - Overview

Nizhny Tagil is the second largest city in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia, one of the biggest and oldest mining and metallurgical centers in the country. It is one of the most important industrial and cultural center of the Urals.

The population of Nizhny Tagil is about 340,700 (2022), the area - 297 sq. km.

The phone code - +7 3435, the postal codes - 622000-622051.

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History of Nizhny Tagil

Nizhny Tagil was founded by Tula industrialists Akinfiy Demidov and Nikita Demidov in 1722. The town became the capital of their “iron kingdom”, the largest center of metallurgy in the Russian Empire. October 8, 1722 - the day of putting into operation of Vyisky copper smelter - was the birthday of the mining village of Nizhny Tagil. And three years later, an iron foundry and ironworks were built.

Vysokaya Mountain became a symbol of the wealth of mineral resources of Nizhny Tagil area - iron and copper, gold and platinum, malachite. The iron produced by local factories was well known in England, France, and other Western European countries. In the 19th century, it constantly received awards at international exhibitions.

In the first half of the 19th century, Nizhny Tagil growth was linked first of all with the developing copper, gold, and platinum industry which was one of the leading industries in the Urals at that time.

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Industrial orientation of the town defined not only its industrial character, way of life, but also the culture, the development of handicrafts associated with the processing of metal and wood. Made from a thin “soft” iron, brightly painted by very durable “crystal” varnish, Nizhny Tagil trays had great success.

Tagil became the focus of people’s creative thoughts and technical progress. The first in the Russian Empire steam locomotive was made by father and son Cherepanov. By the middle of the 19th century, there were a lot of buildings in the town that later became the monuments of architecture. The population of the town was more than 31 thousand people.

Although Tagil didn’t have the official status of the town, it was in fact a pretty big town with factories, hospitals, schools, its own museum and theater. Nizhny Tagil outnumbered a lot of towns in the Russian Empire; in Permskaya gubernia it was the third largest settlement after Perm and Yekaterinburg.

Nizhny Tagil became a town officially in 1919. The intensive industrial development of the town in the 1930s was predetermined by objectives of building a new coal and metallurgical base in the east of the country. The whole area to the east of the old town turned into one huge construction site. By 1941, along with traditional mining, gold, and metallurgical production the city had developed engineering and chemical industries. During the Second World War, most of the T-34 tanks of the Red Army were produced in Nizhny Tagil.

In the 1940s-1960s, the city’s population rose sharply. During the war years - due to the evacuees, many of whom found a second home here, in the postwar period - due to the large influx of young professionals and workers who arrived on local enterprises and construction sites from all over the Soviet Union.

Today, Nizhny Tagil continues to develop and strengthen the defense and industrial power of Russia. The largest international exhibition of arms is traditionally held here.

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Nizhny Tagil - Features

The city is located on the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains, in the valley of the Tagil River, about 20-25 km from the border of Europe and Asia at a height of 200 meters above sea level.

Nizhny Tagil is located in the zone of moderate continental climate characterized by sharp variability of weather conditions, well-defined seasons. The average temperature in January is minus 14.5 degrees Celsius, in July - plus 17.8 degrees Celsius.

There is a myth saying that Nizhny Tagil copper was used in the construction of the Statue of Liberty in New York. According to it, the award-winning sheet copper produced by Upper Vyisky factory was bought by the creator of the monument, the sculptor F. Bartholdi who used it to manufacture the outer shell of the statue.

Nizhny Tagil is the largest industrial and transport center in the Middle Urals. Heavy industry plants are leading in the local economy, light and food industries are developing too. Nizhny Tagil metallurgical plant and Uralvagonzavod are the main plants in the city. Tanks T-90 are produced in the city (“Uralvagonzavod”).

Since 1999, Nizhny Tagil hosts arms exhibitions on the basis of the Nizhny Tagil Institute of Metal Testing. The international exhibition of arms, munitions, and military equipment “Russian Expo Arms” and the international exhibition “Russian Defence Expo” are held alternately in early July. Also, every two years, in early September, the Ural exhibition-fair of railway, special vehicles and road construction machinery “Magistral” is held in the city.

In 2015, for the participants of the events, a hotel of the international hotel network Park Inn by Radisson was opened. It is located on the banks of Nizhny Tagil pond (this is the first hotel of this level in the city).

Attractions of Nizhny Tagil

The main symbol of Nizhny Tagil is Lisya (Fox) Mountain - a small mountain with a watchtower on top, located near Tagil pond. This tower is an architectural monument and objects of cultural heritage of Russia.

Nizhny Tagil Museum of Local History, “Cherepanov’s House”, and the Museum of Crafts (“Demidov’s House”) have a lot of interesting exhibits of the era of industrial development of the Urals.

The Factory-Museum of the History of Mining Equipment located under the open sky has an exhibition highlighting the main steps of metallurgical production. The museum is established in the territory of the metallurgical plant that had been founded in the 18th century and operated until 1987.

The Museum of Fine Arts of Nizhny Tagil has the largest collection of paintings made by Hudoyarov. Also it has a small collection of engravings made by the famous German artist Albrecht Durer and one of the most famous paintings in the world, “The Holy Family” of the great Italian artist Raphael Santi.

In Nizhny Tagil there are a lot of urban sculptures, especially in the city center. The city has four theaters, a circus, a philharmonic hall with jazz, folk, and symphonic orchestras, five movie theaters.

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The most interesting museums of Nizhny Tagil:

• Nizhny Tagil Museum-Reserve “Metallurgical Ural” (Lenina Avenue, 1),
• The Factory-Museum of the History of Mining Equipment (outdoor museum on Lenina Avenue),
• Local History Museum (Lenina Avenue, 1a),
• Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts (Uralskaya Street, 4, 4/1, 5, 7),
• Museum of the Crafts and Life of Local People (Tagilskaya Street, 26),
• Museum of Nizhny Tagil Trays (Tagilskaya Street, 24),
• Historical and Technical Museum “Cherepanov’s House” (Verkhnyaya Cherepanova Street, 1),
• Museum of Armored Vehicles (Vostochnoye Highway, 28/5),
• Memorial and Literary Museum of Bondin (Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, 8),
• Museum-Estate “Demidov’s dacha” (Krasnogvardeyskaya Street, 5a).

Theaters and other cultural institutions

• Drama Theater named after D. Mamin-Sibiryak (Lenina Avenue, 33),
• Youth Theater (Il’icha Street, 37),
• Puppet Theater (Lenina Avenue, 14),
• Theater of Young Spectators (Kosmonavtov Avenue, 32),
• Philharmonic (Tsiolkovskogo Street, 2/3a, Lenina Avenue, 25),
• Circus (Pervomayskaya Street, 8a).

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Nizhny Tagil has a reputation of being an industrial and severe city, home to the Nizhniy Tagil Iron and Steel Works and the Uralvagonzavod industrial complex which is the largest producer of tanks in the world. However the city has embraced this image and turned it into its main attraction by opening many museums here dedicated to its factories (one of such has even been preserved as a museum) and the produced goods, including the painted metal trays for which Nizhny Tagil is also famous. Plus there are also many interesting places which you can visit from the city, such as Alapaevsk , Verkhoturye and Nevyansk . Nizhny Tagil can be easily reached by express train from Yekaterinburg .

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Factory-museum of the history of the development of the ferrous metal industry.

The Nizhny Tagil Ural Mining Museum-Reserve consists of 11 museum detailing the history of the city and its development as an industrial centre. The must-see of these museums is the Factory-Museum - a decommissioned iron and works which is now a museum.

Museum of the History of Nizhny Tagil Trays

Another interesting museum of the Museum-Reserve is this one detailing the history of the creation of the beautifully decorated metal trays for which the city has become famous.

Tower on Bald Mountain

Walk up the city’s extinct-volcano from where you can really appreciate the industrial nature of the city as you look out onto its massive factories.

Vladimir Lenin Monument

Like most Russian cities, Nizhny Tagil has its own Lenin, but this is a statue with a difference thanks to its unique pedestal.

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