Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Cirque romain de la presqu'île
Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Vestiges et emprise du cirque (cad. BD 5, 7, 124, 132, 133 et domaine public, non cadastré) : classement par arrêté du 17 décembre 1992
- Protection dates
- 1992/12/17 : classé MH
- Type
- cirque, site archéologique
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Arles
- Département
- Bouches-du-Rhône
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.67369, 4.61900
- Mérimée reference
- PA00081516
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 LibrariesLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1603 map "Languedock." (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Un des rares cirques fouillés du monde romain.
English translation
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History
One of the rare circuses excavated from the Roman world.
Nearby in the register
- Église des Carmes Déchausséségliseunder 1 mi
- Tour de la Roquetteédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Ancien hôtel Boussicaudhôtelunder 1 mi
- Ancien couvent des Grands-Augustinscouventunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.