Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont du Diable sur l'Ariège, près de Mercus-Carrabet
Montoulieu, Ariège, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont du Diable sur l'Ariège : inscription par arrêté du 17 avril 1950
- Protection dates
- 1950/04/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Montoulieu
- Département
- Ariège
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.90636, 1.64060
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093891
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1781 map "40 Ax." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Pont ogival fortifié situé dans une partie encaissée de la vallée. Il relie le village de Montoulieu à la rive droite de l'Ariège. Sur la rive gauche, ruines d'une maison fortifiée qui formait tête de pont et dont il reste encore les infrastructures ainsi que les deux arcs d'entrée et de sortie. Le pont est à une seule arche très élevée.
English translation
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History
Fortified pointed arch bridge situated in an enclosed part of the valley. It connects the village of Montoulieu to the right bank of the Ariège. On the left bank, ruins of a fortified house which formed a bridgehead and of which there still remain the infrastructures as well as the two arches of entrance and exit. The bridge has a single very elevated arch.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.