

Connected Sites

Site Rationale Link
Benedictine Convent of St. John the oldest towerhouse in the Alps (from the 10th century)
Berat and Gjirokastra Typical houses consist of a tall stone block structure which can be up to five stories high (kule at Gjirokastra)
Historic Jeddah
Kaiping Diaolou
Koutammakou Takienta tower houses
Mesa Verde Square Tower House
Regensburg Ca. 40 patrician houses
Rila Monastery Hrelyo's Tower, built in 1334-5 by protosebastos Hrelja in the courtyard of the Rila Monastery, is a pre-Ottoman example of an autonomous tower that served residential as well as defensive purposes (wiki)
San Gimignano
Um er-Rasas stylites
Upper Svaneti


Do you know of another WHS we could connect to Tower-houses?

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A connection should:

  1. Not be "self evident"
  2. Link at least 3 different sites
  5. Be explained, with reference to a source