Tour de la Croix des Pechs

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Tour de la Croix des Pechs, in Sarlat-la-Canéda, dates for the most part from the twelfth century, with seventeenth-century alterations (doors, windows and the partly broken colonnade at the top). Its form recalls the lantern of the dead at Sarlat. It is covered with dressed stones separated by projecting mouldings; the top is open but probably once ended in a sugar-loaf roof. Inside, large square niches, too wide to be nesting boxes, were no doubt cupboards, and floors separated the levels. According to tradition, it served as a hermitage; the Mérimée entry instead proposes that it was a lantern of the dead, given the neighbouring cemetery. Privately owned, listed as a monument historique by order of 19 avril 1961.