Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines de la tour de péage
Laroque-des-Arcs, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour de péage (ruines) (cad. A 580) : inscription par arrêté du 23 avril 1979
- Protection dates
- 1979/04/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Laroque-des-Arcs
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.47514, 1.46940
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095128
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour carrée située sur un escarpement dominant un méandre du Lot. Elle ne conserve plus de plafond ni de toiture.Cette tour servait de contrôle d'un péage sur le Lot.
English translation
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History
Square tower situated on an escarpment dominating a meander of the Lot. It no longer preserves floor or roof. This tower served to control a toll on the Lot.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Laroquechâteau fortunder 1 mi
- Maison Issalamaison2 mi
- Église Saint-Barthélémyéglise2 mi
- Palais de Jean XXIIpalais2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.