Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Remparts
Saint-Emilion, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Les remparts : classement par arrêté du 12 juillet 1886
- Protection dates
- 1886/07/12 : classé MH
- Type
- enceinte
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 12e siècle, 1er quart 13e siècle
- Dates
- 1110, 1224
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Emilion
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.89161, -0.15375
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083736
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
communiquait au-dehors à l'aide d'une chaussée pratiquée en travers du fossé et flanquée de murailles jusqu'à deux tours qui défendaient l'entrée du passage. Un conduit souterrain permettait de passer de ces tours dans l'intérieur de la ville. Les murs, au premier aspect, paraissent romans et n'étaient pas garnis de tours. En avant de la porte Brunet se trouve un cube de rocher sur lequel sont les fondations d'un châtelet.
English translation
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History
communicated to the outside by means of a causeway built across the ditch and flanked by walls up to two towers which defended the entrance to the passage. An underground conduit allowed passage from these towers into the interior of the town. The walls, at first sight, appear Romanesque and were not furnished with towers. In front of the Brunet gate is found a cube of rock on which are the foundations of a small castle.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien couvent des Cordelierscouventunder 1 mi
- Porte, dite de la Cadène, et maison à pans de bois attenanteporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Donjon fortifié, dit Château du Roiédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Ermitage ou Chapelle de la Trinitéermitageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.