Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Viaduc de la Borrèze
Souillac, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Viaduc de la Borrèze (cad. AK 85) : inscription par arrêté du 28 décembre 1984
- Protection dates
- 1984/12/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1881, 1885
- Ownership
- propriété d'un établissement public
- Commune
- Souillac
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.90182, 1.47489
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095265
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 — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1785 map "35 Sarlat." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Viaduc SNCF sur la ligne reliant Les Aubrais à Montauban. Mis en service en 1885. Electrifié en 1942. Long de 571 mètres. Maçonnerie plein cintre de trente arches au-dessus de la vallée de la Borrèze.
English translation
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History
SNCF viaduct on the line connecting Les Aubrais to Montauban. Put into service in 1885. Electrified in 1942. 571 metres long. Round-arch masonry of thirty arches above the Borrèze valley.
Nearby in the register
- Hallehalleunder 1 mi
- Ancienne église Saint-Martin et son beffroiégliseunder 1 mi
- Église abbatiale Sainte-Marieégliseunder 1 mi
- Anciens bâtiments conventuels de Sainte-Marieabbayeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.