Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien château
L'Isle-Bouzon, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Restes de la tour : inscription par arrêté du 11 janvier 1951
- Protection dates
- 1951/01/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- L'Isle-Bouzon
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.92669, 0.72768
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094809
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Dernier vestige de l'ancien château fort de la famille de Galard de Magnas, totalement détruit, la tour présente trois pans de murs dérasés portant, dans l'angle sud-ouest, une échauguette également dérasée. Ce vestige devait faire partie d'une défense avancée du château.
English translation
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History
Last vestige of the old fortress of the Galard de Magnas family, totally destroyed, the tower presents three wall sections cut back bearing, in the south-west angle, a small look-out tower also cut back. This vestige must have formed part of an advanced defence of the château.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Château de Plieuxchâteau2 mi
- Château de Gramontchâteau2 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.