Tower of Vesunna

The Tower of Vesunna is the vestige of a Gallo-Roman fanum dedicated to Vesunna, a tutelary goddess of the Petrocorii [1]. The "Tower" is the remains of a fanum's cella located in Périgord, in the center of the Dordogne department, south of Périgueux, in the district called Vésone [1]. It stands in a public garden known as Jardin de Vésone [1]. Its East side is now breached by a gap nearly nine meters wide [1]. The fanum is thought to have been constructed in the 2nd century or perhaps at the end of the 1st [1]. The architecture of the temple is a combination of two cultural influences: the Celtic fanum, with a cella surrounded by a low ambulatory or gallery, and the Roman temple model with a columned pronaos opening onto a cella [1]. The round cella is all that remains of the temple, which gives it a height of approximately 24.46 meters [1]. It has an external diameter of 19.6 meters [1].