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Zero tolerance
If you draw the zero line of latitude directly due south of Greenwich, you come to the French version of the leaning Tower of Pisa: the Tour d’Ébéon, a ruined stone tower in the commune of Authon-Ebéon, north of Cognac and east of Saintes. An appeal is to be launched to renovate the tower, beginning with the large buttresses around its base. It leans beyond a safe tolerance and the buttresses are all that prevents it at present from collapsing completely.
Gallo-Roman in origin and dating from the third century A.D., it is one of three such towers in the district, possibly funeral monuments, but believed by some historians to have been lighthouses, showing the old Roman route to the sea. However no-one has really discovered the secret.
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