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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 404

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remains to render VILLENEUVE-LOUBET. 379 a visit very interesting. On nearing it, the edifice (Fig. 211)is seen to consist of a central castle strengthened with fourtowers at the angles, and surmounted by a lofty, quaint,and Moorish-looking watch-tower, the whole being enclosedwith a strong wall of… … KIG. 211. C.-VSTLE OF VILLENEUVE-LOUBET (frOIH thc N.IV.) grating, guarded by two round towers, and furnished witha drawbridge over the moat. The round towers and wallsof enceinte are by no means modern; they probably belongto the sixteenth century, but they have been shorn oftheir proud…

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