Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Hôtel Frascaty
Castres, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine du 17e siècle : inscription par arrêté du 11 décembre 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/12/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- hôtel, fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Castres
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.60437, 2.23649
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095509
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Hôtel construit sous la Régence par Gauthier de Boisset, receveur du grenier à sel. Le maréchal Soult y établit son quartier général en 1814. La fontaine fait partie d'un ensemble constitué de dépendances. L'ouvrage se présente comme un socle de pompe du 17e siècle.
English translation
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History
Hotel built under the Regency by Gauthier de Boisset, receiver of the salt granary. Marshal Soult established his headquarters there in 1814. The fountain is part of a complex made up of outbuildings. The work presents itself as a 17th-century pump base.
Nearby in the register
- Hôtel de Vivièshôtelunder 1 mi
- Immeubleimmeubleunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Platéégliseunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.