Victoria Tower
Victoria Tower is a monument in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, erected in honor of a visit by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to the island in 1846.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Unukorno, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: monument in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey
- Also known as: “Victoria Commemorative Tower” and “Victoria Tower, Guernsey”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Priaulx Library and Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery.
Priaulx Library
Library
Photo: Manxruler, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Priaulx Library, located in St Peter Port, Guernsey, contains the island's principal collection of local and family history. Priaulx Library is situated 130 metres northeast of Victoria Tower.
Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery
Museum
Photo: Pymouss, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery is situated 160 metres northeast of Victoria Tower.
Candie Gardens
Garden
Candie Gardens is a park in St Peter Port, Guernsey, originally established as a Victorian pleasure gardens in 1894. Candie Gardens is situated 180 metres east of Victoria Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Peter Port and St Andrew.
St Peter Port
Town
Photo: Alistair Young, CC BY 2.0.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a group of islands in the English Channel, part of the Channel Islands. Guernsey is the main island, some 50 miles west of the Cotentin Peninsula in France.
St Andrew
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Saint Andrew is located in the centre of Guernsey and as such is the only parish on the island to be landlocked. As it is customary to list the parishes round the coast, either clockwise or anti-clockwise, starting with St Peter Port, St Andrew is usually the last parish to be mentioned in such a list.
St Martin
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a group of islands in the English Channel, part of the Channel Islands. Guernsey is the main island, some 50 miles west of the Cotentin Peninsula in France. St Martin is situated 2½ km south of Victoria Tower.
Victoria Tower
- Categories: monument, tower, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Guernsey, Channel Islands, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.45821° or 49° 27′ 30″ northLongitude
-2.54282° or 2° 32′ 34″ westInception
1848Open location code
8CXVFF54+7VOpenStreetMap ID
way 420020696OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=towerOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q7927092
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Hebrew—“Victoria Tower” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “維多利亞塔 (根西)”
- Chinese: “維多利亞塔”
- Dutch: “Victoria Tower”
- German: “Victoria Tower”
- Greek: “Πύργος της Βικτωρίας”
- Hebrew: “מגדל ויקטוריה (גרנזי)”
- Hebrew: “מגדל ויקטוריה”
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Highlights include Guernsey Fire Station and Candie Cemetery.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Victoria Tower”. Photo: Unukorno, CC BY-SA 3.0.