Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour de Porchères
Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Tour de Porchères (cad. B3 501) : inscription par arrêté du 25 octobre 1961
- Protection dates
- 1961/10/25 : inscrit MH
- Type
- enceinte
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire
- Département
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.91577, 5.74195
- Mérimée reference
- PA00080473
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "Les Estats de Savoye et de Piemont (southwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Nearby in the register
- Château de Sauvanchâteauunder 1 mi
- Prieuré de Châteauneufprieuré1 mi
- Pont des Trois Arches dit aussi Pont Romain franchissant La Laye (ruines)pont1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Jeanchapelle1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.
Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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