Tour de Sagone

Details of the activity

The Sagone tower was unable to protect them, the Giraffe and the Nourrice were scuttled in the port of Sagone while the last, the Henriette ran aground on the beach.

These three boats were at anchor, loaded and ready to leave when they were attacked by the English army Indeed at the time the port of Sagone in full activity was the starting point of the large pieces of wood of the exploitations of the forest of Aïtone, for the arsenal of Toulon.

From the success won by the English in the Gulf of Sagone on May 1, 1811, the insufficiency of the protection offered by the old Genoese tower of the place and the battery established at its feet stand out. Napoleon therefore ordered the construction of new batteries to make the anchorage safer (Transcription of the Police Bulletin of May 25, 1811)

The tower is 30 meters above the road. It is reached by a small path after crossing a small barrier. It is a tower, in poor condition, round on one floor in granite and schist with a terraced guardiola. Outside we see a small adjoining stone building. A staircase, dug in the wall, allows to go up to the terrace

This May 1, 1811 will not have marked the total destruction of our guardian, she continues to monitor the Gulf of Sagone.

Source: West Corsica