Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont Vieux sur l'Ander
Saint-Flour, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le Pont Vieux : inscription par arrêté du 14 octobre 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/10/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Commune
- Saint-Flour
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.03334, 3.09978
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093631
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1780 map "54 Saint-Flour." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Sur ce pont se trouvait autrefois une recluserie, prison ou s'enfermaient volontairement les reclus ou recluses pour finir leur vie dans la pratique du jeûne et de l'abstinence. Pont du 14e siècle, à deux arches.
English translation
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History
On this bridge there formerly stood a reclusory, a prison where recluses would voluntarily shut themselves away to end their lives in the practice of fasting and abstinence. Bridge of the 14th century, with two arches.
Nearby in the register
- Porte des Rochesporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Ancien évêché, actuellement mairie et muséepalais épiscopalunder 1 mi
- Caisse d'Epargne - Hôtel de villehôtel de villeunder 1 mi
- Cathédrale Saint-Pierrecathédraleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.