Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fortifications
Capdenac, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Ruines des anciennes fortifications : classement par arrêté du 16 mai 1911
- Protection dates
- 1911/05/16 : classé MH
- Type
- fortification d'agglomération
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Capdenac
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.58005, 2.06878
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095040
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 1781 map "16 Rodez." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Les fortifications comptent sept portes avec un long développement de murailles. Le donjon du 15e siècle se compose d'un escalier menant à la plateforme.
English translation
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History
The fortifications comprise seven gates with an extensive development of walls. The 15th-century keep consists of a staircase leading to the platform.
Nearby in the register
- Croix en pierre datée de 1667croix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Fontaine troglodytique dite Fontaine des Anglaisfontaineunder 1 mi
- Égliseéglise2 mi
- Château de Saint-Julien d'Emparechâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.