Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine monumentale du 17e siècle
Ciboure, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine monumentale du 17e siècle : inscription par arrêté du 4 juin 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/06/04 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1676
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Ciboure
- Département
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.38405, -1.66856
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084379
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 "Bovrdelois, pais de Medoc et la prevoste de Born" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La fontaine se compose d'une stèle droite couronnée d'un chapiteau aux armes de Ciboure et surmonté d'une pointe pyramidale tronquée. L'eau se déverse par deux becs de bronze en forme de canon.
English translation
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History
The fountain consists of a straight stele crowned with a capital bearing the arms of Ciboure and topped with a truncated pyramidal point. Water flows out through two bronze spouts in the shape of cannons.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Vincentégliseunder 1 mi
- Feu amont d'alignement du portportunder 1 mi
- Maison de Ravelmaisonunder 1 mi
- Ancien couvent des Récolletscouventunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.