Mont Avison, Archaeological site and viewpoint at Mont Avison, France.
Mont Avison, also called Grande Avison, is a 593-metre summit at Bruyères in the Vosges, its slopes covered in coniferous forest. On top stands a 15-metre lookout tower, the tour de l'Avison, built in 1900 and repaired in 1957, beside a small red-roofed structure and a metal lattice telecommunications tower.
Roman settlers occupied the mountain between the 3rd and 4th centuries as a strategic location. Excavations during the late 1960s uncovered coins, pottery, and building foundations from this period.
The summit carries a 15-metre lookout tower, the "tour de l'Avison", built in 1900 and repaired in 1957 under mayor René Drahon. A bronze orientation table donated by the Club alpin in September 1898, long thought lost, was kept safe by a local resident and returned to the platform at the Liberation.
The summit is reached on foot from Bruyères; the tower stands on the top beside a small red-roofed structure. The bronze orientation table offered by the Club alpin in September 1898 is back on the platform, where it was returned at the Liberation. The tower was repaired in 1957 under mayor René Drahon after the October 1944 bombardments.
The summit tower, built in 1900, was partly destroyed by bombing in October 1944 and repaired in 1957 under mayor René Drahon. Its bronze orientation table, donated by the Club alpin in September 1898, was long thought lost; a resident kept it safe and it was returned to the platform at the Liberation.
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