Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Laffinoux
Lalinde, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Laffinoux (cad. B 212) : inscription par arrêté du 29 novembre 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/11/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle, 17e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Lalinde
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.87332, 0.74077
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082597
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Un quadrilatère de murailles renforcées de tours basses, enserre le château. Une douve court sur l'un des côtés. Près du portail d'entrée, tour ronde du 15e siècle. Dans la cour d'honneur, tour ronde du 15e siècle et pavillon rectangulaire dont les murs et les toits sont galbés d'époque Régence, avec galerie à terrasse. D'importants communs tiennent tout un côté de la cour d'honneur.
English translation
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History
A quadrilateral of walls reinforced by low towers encloses the castle. A moat runs along one of the sides. Near the entrance portal stands a round tower of the 15th century. In the courtyard of honour, a round tower of the 15th century and a rectangular pavilion whose walls and roofs are curved in the Régence style, with a gallery with terraces. Important outbuildings occupy one entire side of the courtyard of honour.
Nearby in the register
- Église Sainte-Colombeégliseunder 1 mi
- église Saint-Sauveur de Vicqéglise2 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativitééglise2 mi
- Château de la Ruechâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.