Clock Gate

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Clock Gate (porte de l'Horloge), a former town gate of Vire, has been listed as a monument historique by order of 12 July 1886 and belongs to the commune. The Mérimée database records two building campaigns: one in the twelfth century, the other in the last quarter of the fifteenth century (the years 1480 and 1499 are mentioned). A secondary source links the gate to a medieval passage known as the "porte Gastinel" and places the installation of the clock and a bell in 1499; the dating of the original gate (twelfth or thirteenth century) remains to be clarified.