Tour des Pins (Montpellier) - Nostradamus Prediction

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Tower pines (not Pine Tower) - so, I think, correct to translate. ! The legendary building once Montpellier, as befits a medieval town, was surrounded by a moat and ramparts with 25 towers, two of which have survived - and this Babot... It owes its name to the tower two pines, once grown on top of it (. Tramp seeds, garbage, etc.) Michel Nostradamus, who studied at the local university in 1529-1532 years, predicted: "The city will fall when pine disappear from the tower "In for many years, the trees are carefully protected by the superstitious inhabitants of the city. However, as the trees grew and became strong, the building because their roots destroy. And in 1828, the tower pine ubrali.Istoriya did not end there. To grim prediction has not come true yet, the city authorities decided to put on the tower two cypress (conifers, though, and the roots are shorter).Before still planted. So, just in case :) - It's been almost in 1908