Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Entrée des Caves peintes
Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Entrée des Caves peintes (cad. AR 113) : inscription par arrêté du 19 avril 1932
- Protection dates
- 1932/04/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- portail
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- impasse des Caves-Peintes
- Commune
- Chinon
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.16763, 0.23892
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097668
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "The Dvkedome of Turone. Touraine. Tvronensis Ducatus" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'entrée des caves peintes présente une arcade en tiers point de section rectangulaire. Ces caves sont mentionnées dans le Pantagruel de Rabelais. La cave peinte a été primitivement une carrière, creusée du 12e au 15e siècle par les entrepreneurs en maçonnerie chargés de la construction du château de Chinon et des remparts de la ville. Le lieu fut ensuite utilisé comme cellier à vin dès la fin du 15e siècle. La dénomination de "caves peintes" vient des fresques qui ornaient autrefois les murs et qui, d'après Rabelais, représentaient des danses bacchiques. Il n'en reste plus trace aujourd'hui.
English translation
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History
The entrance to the painted cellars presents a pointed arch opening of rectangular section. These cellars are mentioned in Rabelais' Pantagruel. The painted cellar was originally a quarry, excavated from the 12th to 15th century by masonry contractors responsible for the construction of Chinon castle and the ramparts of the town. The place was subsequently used as a wine cellar from the end of the 15th century. The designation of "painted cellars" comes from the frescoes which formerly ornamented the walls and which, according to Rabelais, represented bacchic dances. No trace of them remains today.
Nearby in the register
- Fort Saint-Georgesfortunder 1 mi
- Ancien hôtel des Monnaieshôtel des monnaiesunder 1 mi
- Maison à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison rougemaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.