Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vestiges du château
Grimaud, Var, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Vestiges (cad. G 140, 141) : classement par arrêté du 27 décembre 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/12/27 : classé MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- le Village
- Commune
- Grimaud
- Département
- Var
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.27468, 6.52122
- Mérimée reference
- PA00081632
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)IGN France — GéoportailBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 16: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Château féodal de plan quadrangulaire flanqué de quatre tours et protégé par trois enceintes successives, construit au Moyen-Age, démantelé en 1565, peut-être restauré au 17e siècle.
English translation
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History
Feudal castle of quadrangular plan flanked by four towers and protected by three successive fortifications, built in the Middle Ages, dismantled in 1565, possibly restored in the 17th century.
Nearby in the register
- Maison du 15ème sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Michelégliseunder 1 mi
- Chapelle des Pénitentschapelleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.