• Hoewever, the wonderful Tour de Guet seems to have lost its information sign so that anyone new to Calais will have no idea what it was.
  • Le Monument Historique Tour du Guet, référence PA00108248, est situé 2 Place d'Armes 62100 Calais.
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • Bell at the Tour du Guet, Calais. The Tour du Guet is a 13th-century watchtower in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, northern France.
  • Museum of Fine Arts in Calais is 0.3 miles from the property and Fort Nieulay is about 1.2 miles away.
  • La tour du Guet est située dans le centre de Calais, au niveau de la place d'Armes.
  • The Tour du Guet is a 13th-century watchtower. It is 39 metres high and features a dovecote for carrier pigeons.
  • William Hogarth had depicted it satirically in his 1748 painting O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’) (Tate N01464 ), engraved the following...