La Cadière-d’Azur

  1. La Cadière-d’Azur

La Cadière-d’Azur clock tower

Résumé: Built in the 16th century, it is narrow (2.6 meters at the base) and rises to a height of around 20 meters. It is [...]
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Built in the 16th century, it is narrow (2.6 meters at the base) and rises to a height of around 20 meters. It is topped by an attractive wrought-iron campanile.


The clock :
- 1540 purchase of the metal by the town council
- Manufacture of the clock by La Cadière's locksmith.
The tower: built in 1551 outside the ramparts
- The bell (10 quintals, 450 kg and rings the ground): cast by Jehan Ardisson, "fondeur pour le Roi" in Marseille, transported in 9 days to the port of Les Lecques by boat. It was installed in 1585. It also has a handsome wrought-iron campanile.

GLUE DOOR

Résumé: It has the same characteristics as the Porte St Jean. It is also one of the three primitive gates that gave access to the [...]
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It has the same characteristics as the Porte St Jean. It is also one of the three primitive gates that gave access to the village.


The portcullis slide can still be seen, but its wooden wings have disappeared.
There was also a third gate (the Porte de Cavaillon) at the top of the rue des anciennes écoles, which disappeared during the successive changes to the village.

DOOR MAZARINE

Résumé: So named because it was opened in 1657 with the authorization of Mazarin, then Lord of La Cadière. It was enlarged in 1937. It was [...]
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So named because it was opened in 1657 with the authorization of Mazarin, then Lord of La Cadière. It was enlarged in 1937.


It was next to this gate that King Charles IX is said to have stayed during his visit to La Cadière on November 4 and 5, 1564.