France · 16th century
The Tower of Campumoru (Corsican: Torra di Campumoru) is a Genoese tower located in the commune of Belvédère-Campomoro (Corse-du-Sud) on the west coast of the French island of Corsica. The tower sits at an elevation of 78 m (256 ft) on the Punta di Campomoro headland which forms the southern limit of the Golfe de Valinco.
The tower was designed by Carlo Spinosa and built between 1585 and 1586 by the master-mason Giorgio Canton. It was one of a series of coastal defences constructed by the Republic of Genoa between 1530 and 1620 to stem the attacks by Barbary pirates. In 1992 the tower was listed as one of the official historical monuments of France.
Since 1986 the tower has been owned and maintained by a French government agency, the Conservatoire du littoral. The agency plans to purchase 132 ha (330 acres) of the headland and as of 2011 had acquired 70 ha (170 acres).
Text adapted from “Torra di Campumoru” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Torra di Campomoru ranks #5,550 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #494 of the 787 mapped in France. Founded 1585, it is older than 33% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 886 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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