Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vieille porte
Biran, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Porte (vieille) : inscription par arrêté du 30 mai 1947
- Protection dates
- 1947/05/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Biran
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.69639, 0.41932
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094746
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)IGN France — Géoportail
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1770 map "74 Auch." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Seul vestige des fortifications de la ville, la porte se compose d'une tour carrée d'une dizaine de mètres de haut, recouverte d'un toit de tuiles canal. Une large ouverture a été percée à sa base. Un escalier de pierre sur le côté permet de gagner le premier étage, éclairé par des ouvertures rectangulaires.
English translation
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History
Sole remnant of the town's fortifications, the gate consists of a square tower about ten metres high, covered with a channel tile roof. A large opening has been made at its base. A stone staircase on the side allows access to the first floor, lit by rectangular openings.
Nearby in the register
- Borne avec chrisme sculptéborneunder 1 mi
- Tour gallo-romaineédifice fortifié1 mi
- Église de Ramensanéglise2 mi
- Pile gallo-romainemonument2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.