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Expo Ambon- The Fire Tower
Acrylic on canvas (30x30cm)
The Tower of the English DAMGAN
Fire tower built between 1442 and 1450, it is listed in the supplementary inventory of Historic Monuments. It is then the oldest "fire tower" (ancestor of lighthouses) still existing in its original architecture on the French Atlantic coast! The Tower was both a watchtower and a beacon: it signaled the entrance to the Pénerf River and made it possible to watch for the arrival of enemy corsairs: boats from Jersey, Spain and England.
Its current name only appears after 1902 , previously it was called the White Tower then the Pénerf Tower
(photo by Gabriel Lunven)
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