Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Madirac
La Romieu, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Madirac (cad. E 607) : inscription par arrêté du 28 avril 1964
- Protection dates
- 1964/04/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1582
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- La Romieu
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.98506, 0.47438
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094899
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 1628 map "Potamographie de Garone et des Fleuves qui Rendent Dedans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Gentilhommière gasconne qui se distingue par le caractère accentué de sa décoration. Fenêtres à meneaux cruciformes. Tourelles en surplomb. Motifs sculptés sur une des tourelles d'angle.
English translation
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History
Gascon country house distinguished by the marked character of its decoration. Windows with cruciform mullions. Projecting turrets. Sculpted motifs on one of the corner turrets.
Nearby in the register
- Tour dite du Cardinal d'Auxédifice fortifié1 mi
- Église et cloîtreséglise1 mi
- Église Sainte-Germaine de Baradieuéglise2 mi
- Ancienne commanderie d'Abrincommanderie3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.