Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte d'Orient
Charroux, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Porte d'Orient : inscription par arrêté du 9 décembre 1929
- Protection dates
- 1929/12/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Charroux
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.18629, 3.16144
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093048
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 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Charroux figurait autrefois parmi les villes closes du Bourbonnais. Des murailles subsistent les portes d'Orient et d'Occident.
English translation
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History
Charroux formerly numbered among the walled towns of Bourbonnais. Of the walls remain the gates of the East and West.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Jean-Baptisteégliseunder 1 mi
- Porte d'Occidentporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Ancienne église Saint-André de Taxatéglise1 mi
- Église Saint-Martin de Senatéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.