Blacon Tower (Blacons Keep)

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Tour de Blacons stands in Roche-Saint-Secret-Béconne (Drôme), on the left bank of the Lez, on the site of the former medieval castle of Blacon. Only a quadrangular keep from the 12th–13th centuries survives, together with remnants of the curtain wall; the commune presents it as a so-called Saracen tower dating from the early 12th century. According to the Drôme heritage map, the Blacon family held it in the 12th century, and then the Mévouillon-Montauban family in the late 12th or 13th century. The site was abandoned at the beginning of the 15th century in favour of the plain, where the lordship of La Bâtie-Blacon came into being. The tower belongs to private owners, is not protected as a monument historique and is not open to visitors.