Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte de ville
Montjoie-en-Couserans, Ariège, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Porte de ville (cad. C 1) : inscription par arrêté du 27 avril 1965
- Protection dates
- 1965/04/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Montjoie-en-Couserans
- Département
- Ariège
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.00136, 1.16038
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093890
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "39 St. Lizier, St. Martory." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le village est une ancienne place fortifiée, entourée d'une enceinte carrée légèrement allongée. Les quatre angles étaient défendus par une tour ronde et deux portes donnaient accès à la place. Il subsiste la base d'une des tours et l'une des portes.
English translation
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History
The village is an old fortified square, surrounded by a square enclosure slightly elongated. The four corners were defended by a round tower and two gates gave access to the square. There remains the base of one of the towers and one of the gates.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Chapelle de Marsanchapelleunder 1 mi
- Ancienne cathédrale et cloîtrecathédrale1 mi
- Ancien Hôtel Dieu, actuellement résidence Hector d'Ossunhôtel-Dieu1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.