Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour Pannessac
Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour Pannessac : classement par arrêté du 6 mars 1897
- Protection dates
- 1897/03/06 : classé MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Le Puy-en-Velay
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.04448, 3.88028
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092813
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 LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1777 map "89 Le Puy." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Les évêques du Puy, comtes du Velay, fortifièrent leur ville par une double enceinte, l'une entourant la ville, l'autre dite "enceinte du cloître" protégeant la cathédrale et le palais épiscopal. La tour Pannessac fait partie de la première enceinte.
English translation
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History
The bishops of Le Puy, counts of Velay, fortified their town with a double enclosure, one surrounding the town, the other called the "cloister enclosure" protecting the cathedral and the episcopal palace. The tower Pannessac forms part of the first enclosure.
Nearby in the register
- Statue de Lafayette, située près de la tour Pannessacmonumentunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Hôtel de Séneujolhôtelunder 1 mi
- Immeubleimmeubleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.