Tour Saint-Jacques

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Tower Saint Jacques is close to a nice area Chatelet. This gothic beauty, height of 52 meters, held today after the recent restoration, is somewhat artificial, it seems that with soot washed away and left part tainstvennosti.Bashnya produces some strange impression lonely Gothic tower, next to no church, no castle, not even ruins walls. In fact, the story of her mysterious and so deep that it seems, the very providence has preserved this ancient witness of bygone days in Paris, it was not destroyed nor conversion, nor the revolution, time spared. Here she stands in the heart of Paris since the beginning of the XVI veka.Venchaet top of a lonely tower statue of St. James (St. Jacques, Santiago, St. James), the work of sculptor Shenon. But the tower was not always alone in the old days it was a huge church bell tower, occupy an area of the current park surrounding bashnyu.