The tower without venom

Qualified like belonging to the Seven Wonders of Dauphine the, the Tour without Venom is located in the village of Seyssinet-Pariset (Isere). The little of testimony relative to this thousand-year-old place authorizes only assumptions as for the history of this tower whose only an angle remains.

The vestige of the keep of the 13th century is perched on a hill (666m) on the buttresses of the Massif of Vercors dominating the town of Grenoble.

With his feet, one discovers an impressive panorama on the valleys of Isere and Drac as well as the Massif of Chartreuse and the chain of Belledonne. This culminating point even makes it possible to see the Mont Blanc in clear weather.

Legends

Many legends try to explain the name of this tower although none is verifiable:

- no snake could approach close it castle or live there. - the ground of this place cured bites of snake. - the lord of Pariset, ghost of crusade, brought back a ground bag collected at the Holy Sepulchre. Spreading around the castle, it removed the place from the poisonous reptiles which infested it. - Roland, the nephew of Charlemagne would have spread there a ground bag of Paris, repulsive for crawling animals. - a temple was high with the goddess Isis (goddess who protected says one snakes). - presence of “viperine”, plant which pushed on this rock. - “Without Venin” the will of peace of the city marks. - the old name would be “Saint-Véran Turn” or “Holy Turn Jack”. With time, this name would have been transformed into “Turn Without Venom”.

External bonds

Zététique Observatory: Turn-without-Venom, a history which does not miss prickly a

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