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Château

Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Tour : inscription par arrêté du 4 juin 1925
Protection dates
1925/06/04 : inscrit MH
Type
château
Main period of construction
1er quart 15e siècle
Dates
1403
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle
Département
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
43.35336, -1.54870
Mérimée reference
PA00084514

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1770 map "89. Mapa del Muy Noble y Muy Leal provincia de Guipuzcoa" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

La tour était primitivement à deux étages, les créneaux anciens ayant été remontés au troisième étage d'une construction plus récente. Au 16e siècle, les meurtrières plus étroites du 15e siècle, dont il reste deux exemples au second étage, ont été remplacées par des fenêtres à meneaux. Ce château est l'une des seules constructions militaires subsistant du 15e siècle en Labourd.

English translation

The text above is the record as published by the Ministère de la Culture, in French. The English below is a machine translation made by TreeAlive, not by the Ministère de la Culture; it has not been checked by a person. Where the two differ, the original is the record. Report a translation error: privacy@treealive.com

The tower originally had two storeys, the old crenellations having been moved to the third storey of a more recent construction. In the 16th century, the narrower loopholes of the 15th century, of which two examples remain on the second storey, were replaced by mullioned windows. This castle is one of the few surviving military constructions from the 15th century in Labourd.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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