Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont sur le Touch
Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont sur le Touch : inscription par arrêté du 11 avril 1950
- Protection dates
- 1950/04/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1768
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Address
- Sur la route nationale de Toulouse à Bayonne
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Martin-du-Touch
- Commune
- Toulouse
- Département
- Haute-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.60854, 1.38500
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094629
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 "Languedoc, occidentale." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Pont construit en 1768 sur l'ordre des états du Languedoc. L'ouvrage se compose d'une arche, avec retour évasé des parapets des deux côtés. Au centre de l'arche, en amont et en aval, en clef de voûte, se trouve un écusson en pierre aux armes des états du Languedoc.
English translation
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History
Bridge built in 1768 by order of the estates of Languedoc. The structure consists of one arch, with flared return of the parapets on both sides. At the centre of the arch, upstream and downstream, at the key of the vault, is found a stone escutcheon bearing the arms of the estates of Languedoc.
Nearby in the register
- Amphithéâtre gallo-romain de Blagnacamphithéâtreunder 1 mi
- Pont sur le Touchpont1 mi
- Village néolithiquesite archéologique1 mi
- Couvent Sainte-Catherine de Siennecouvent2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.