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The Tour Barberousse (in English Redbeard Tower) is in the coastal village of Gruissan in the Aude département of France.The tower is all that remains of a castle built at the end of the 10th century to observe the approaches to the harbour at Narbonne and to guard against seaborne invasions of the city. Built on a steep rocky hill the castle was enlarged in the 12th century by the Archbishops of Narbonne Guillaume de Broa.
