Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines du château
Cuzorn, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (ruines) (cad. D 928) : inscription par arrêté du 20 juin 1950
- Protection dates
- 1950/06/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une association
- Commune
- Cuzorn
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.54420, 0.94976
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084099
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1628 map "Potamographie de Garone et des Fleuves qui Rendent Dedans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le donjon se présente comme une tour carrée du 13e siècle, avec fenêtres à meneaux, construite sur un rocher à pic. Quelques vestiges du mur d'enceinte sont conservés.
English translation
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History
The keep presents itself as a square tower of the 13th century, with mullioned windows, built on sheer rock. Some vestiges of the curtain wall are preserved.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
- Restes de l'église Saint-Frontéglise2 mi
- Église de Las-Treilleséglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.