Tour Renard
Built between 1465 and 1477 the tower is pierced by loopholes (i.e. arrowslits) and topped by a domed roof of lava slabs.
On 10 October 1888 it witnessed President Sadi Carnot's triumphal arrival at Beaune's railway station.
During the French Revolution it was used to store saltpetre.
The site is private; the tower can be viewed from the boulevard or the Tour des Remparts
If you take Rue Armand Gouffé then Rue du Tribunal, you come to Place Ziem, which contains Saint Etienne Chapel and the cloister of the former Carmelite convent.
The map
To visit
- Château de Beaune
- Tour Renard
- Le Bastion Saint Anne
- Tour des Poudres
- Grosse Tour
- Tour des Billes
- The Lavoir
- Tour des Cordeliers
- Bastion Bretonnière or Condé
- Tour des Dames
- Bastion Saint Martin
- Tour des Filles or de l’Oratoire
- La Porte Saint Nicolas
- The Théâtre – Bastion Saint-Nicolas
- Théâtre de Verdure
- Bastion Notre Dame
- Tour Blondeau