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If there is a symbol of Rennes-Le-Château, it is certain that the Magdala tower is the one there! Known through the whole world, the silhouette of the construction of Bérenger Saunière dominates the tray and the valley of the Dances, of the Stream of the Colors .Of neo-Gothic architecture, Bérenger Saunière made the works of the construction of the building start at the same time as those of the Béthanie villa, in May 1901. It forms one of the angles of a square imaginary of dimension 8x8 the size of its basis. The diametrically opposite angle being occupied by the orange grove..

The Magdala tower, tower of stone, was the place of privileged compilation of Bérenger Saunière. He had a library constructed to order in massive oak. It is always this library that one can see while visiting the places. It is in this library that the priest arranged his collection of stamps of which he was especially proud scrupulously, since composed of several thousands of stamps from all over the world. He acquired many rare works that decorated the rays of it. Collector of numerous magazines, he " hired" a bookbinder who got settled to home to Rennes-Le-Château to achieve the bookbinding of the different magazines.

It is also at the summit of the Magdala tower, during the second fortnight of January 1917, that Bérenger Saunière was hit by an attack. Elated to the presbytery, he will die January 22, 1917 to 5h00 the morning.

The Magdala tower is, maybe, the first visible element of the esoterism of Bérenger Saunière. Some elements, from the moment or one becomes aware of it, astonish and make us interrogate us. Dice the outside view we don't fail to notice the number of gap covering the building. They are to the number of 22, symbolic number if it is some! This number we recover it again inside the tower, all as we will recover it in the Tower of the Orangerai.

The windows of the Tower, all of ogival shape, are pierced of trilobés. This drawing in the shape of clover made reference, in the symbolic Christian nun, to the trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy spirit,.

Our curiosity is going to be put again to the test. rossing the library us heads toward the staircase that must drive us to the summit of the tower. Always intrigued by the paving, our look stops on a detail: What comes to make this red point in the paving among the black points, everywhere else? Our question remains without answer

Let's enter again in the Magdala tower. Our eyes, after having recognized the library in oak, fall on the paving of soil. It is in line with a square of beautiful dimension. As there looking with precision at us is astonished to note that he/it is a square of 8x8, either 64 tiles. Is this, the representation of the square in which does the Tower appear herself ?

Abandoning the piece us begins the ascension of the staircase constructs in the échauguette and that must lead us to the summit. Nearly by reflex, we count our steps, walk to walk: 1,2,3. 22! Here also we fall again on the symbolic number 22 ! The rise of the walks drives us to the summit of the Tower. The view is surprising! One sees the whole domain as well as a good part of the village there. On a clear day, the view on the peak of Bugarach is magnificent. Our look kisses the tray of Rennes-Le-Château and the valley of the als of the Ruisseau des Couleurs..

A sort of current bench everything along the perimeter of the tower permits to sit down. Seated to the angle opposed of the door of where clears the staircase, we can see a murderess in the thickness of the wall of the échauguette. There also a detail surprises: The end of the rail of the staircase is decorated with a tip in the shape of apple of bread. From where we are, we note a strange alignment: The tip of the rail perfectly appears in the murderess's space and seem to project itself on a quoted of the cliff of the valley of the stream of the colors. The luck is astonishing, the place that seems to be indicated is the entry of an underground cave: The Madeleine's underground cave !

The chimney emerges the ready soil of the door. It is covered of a hat in the shape of trilobé. Our visit of the Tower Magdala ends, we bring down again the twenty-two walks and let's survey the chessboard before leaving on the belvédère.

To the fact! When Bérenger Saunière had achieved the plans of the Tower, he had baptized" it Tower of the clock ".