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Le château en bref
The Tours de Mons, at Vanzy (Haute-Savoie), are the remains of a fortified castle built from 1290 around a rectangular tower (a keep measuring about 10 m by 7 m), supplemented in the 14th century by round towers flanking a rectangular courtyard lined with outbuildings (barns, oven, wine vat house). The seat of a lordship first mentioned in 1281 with Guillaume d'Arlod, a vassal of the counts of Geneva, the site controlled access to the Usses valley and the Semine; it is today the oldest and best-preserved medieval remains in the Semine valley. Some historians have sought to identify it with Roman "Tours de César", although the visible structures for the most part date from the 12th–13th centuries, possibly built over earlier remains.