Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Hôtel de ville
Libourne, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Hôtel de Ville : classement par arrêté du 9 septembre 1908
- Protection dates
- 1908/09/09 : classé MH
- Type
- hôtel de ville
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Libourne
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.91448, -0.24534
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083597
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 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Libourne est une bastide régulière construite au Moyen Age. La ville possède une place bordée de quatre galeries couvertes dont un des angles est occupé par la mairie. L'édifice présente un haut pignon avec deux tours. L'ensemble date du 15e ou du 16e siècle. Les deux tours datent, sur partie de leur hauteur, de la première moitié du 18e siècle. L'édifice illustre le type de la mairie des communes du sud-ouest au Moyen Age.
English translation
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History
Libourne is a regular bastide built in the Middle Ages. The town has a square bordered by four covered galleries, one of whose angles is occupied by the town hall. The building presents a high gable with two towers. The whole dates from the 15th or 16th century. The two towers date, over part of their height, from the first half of the 18th century. The building illustrates the type of town hall of communes in the south-west in the Middle Ages.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Jeanégliseunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Synagoguesynagogueunder 1 mi
- Porte du Portouvrage d'entréeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.