Historical landmark
La Tour du Dolder
Medieval gate tower and belfry with a night watchman's bell, guarding a walled wine town's entrance.
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About this audio guide
This guide to La Tour du Dolder, Riquewihr's fortified gate tower in Alsace, follows one family who lived inside it from the year twelve ninety-one onward, closing the town gate each dusk and keeping watch until dawn. It traces what that nightly duty meant across three peaceful centuries, and what happened to it when the Thirty Years War reached this walled wine town. Look up at the tower's bell, still labeled for the job it always named.
This audio guide was created using AI.