Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte de la ville
Montaigut-le-Blanc, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Porte de la ville : inscription par arrêté du 19 janvier 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/01/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Montaigut-le-Blanc
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.58745, 3.09221
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092199
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 1712 map "Les Provinces et Gouvernemens Du Lionnois ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Porte d'enceinte du château du 13e siècle, en arc brisé. Au-dessus, à gauche, sont encore en place deux des corbeaux ayant porté des mâchicoulis défendant la porte.
English translation
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History
Gateway of the 13th-century castle, with a pointed arch. Above, to the left, two of the corbels which supported machicolations defending the gate are still in place.
Nearby in the register
- Ruines du château fortchâteauunder 1 mi
- Tour de Rognonédifice fortifié1 mi
- Menhir dit Pierre Fichademenhir2 mi
- Château fort et église Saint-Jean du Marchidialchâteau fort2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.