Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Saint-Julien d'Empare
Capdenac-Gare, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures du château et de la tour isolée faisant partie de l'ancien château (cad. AO 152, 158) : inscription par arrêté du 10 novembre 1977
- Protection dates
- 1977/11/10 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1762
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Capdenac-Gare
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.55598, 2.07902
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093988
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 1742 map "Composite: Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château semble dater du 16e siècle, et avoir été restauré au 18e siècle. Son rôle défensif se retrouvait dans la présence de fossés disparus au 18e. Le château contrôlait le passage du Lot, près de Capdenac. L'édifice est constitué d'un corps d'habitation central allongé (18e) , flanqué de deux tours à ses extrémités. Autrefois rattachée à la tour nord par un pan de mur dont les traces subsistent, une autre tour est située à quinze mètres. A la Révolution, le château et les terres furent vendus comme biens nationaux.
English translation
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History
The castle appears to date from the 16th century, and to have been restored in the 18th century. Its defensive role was found in the presence of moats which disappeared in the 18th century. The castle controlled the passage of the Lot, near Capdenac. The building consists of an elongated central dwelling block (18th century), flanked by two towers at its extremities. Formerly connected to the north tower by a wall section of which traces remain, another tower is located fifteen metres away. At the Revolution, the castle and lands were sold as national property.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Clairéglise2 mi
- Croix en pierre datée de 1667croix monumentale2 mi
- Fontaine troglodytique dite Fontaine des Anglaisfontaine2 mi
- Fortificationsfortification d'agglomération2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.