Jersey Round Tower
The Round Towers stand all along the coast the island of Jersey. In total the British built 23 round towers and eight Martello towers towards the end of the 18th Century and in the early to mid-19th Century, but now only 24 remain, including seven of the Martellos.
Read more about Jersey Round Tower: History, The Round Towers, La Tour Cârrée, The Towers Depicted
Famous quotes containing the words jersey and/or tower:
“vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous
picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall,”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“The tower nearest the water gets the moonlight first.”
—Chinese proverb.