Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour dite La Lanterne
Rochecorbon, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour dite La Lanterne : classement par liste de 1840
- Protection dates
- 1840 : classé MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Rochecorbon
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.40911, 0.75532
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098049
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 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'ouvrage se compose d'un pan de muraille à l'extrémité duquel se trouve la tour creuse de huit mètres de haut, dont la façade prolonge directement la première assise rocheuse du coteau.
English translation
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History
The work consists of a length of wall at the end of which is found the hollow tower eight metres high, of which the façade directly extends the first rocky layer of the hillside.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dameégliseunder 1 mi
- Manoir des Basses-Rivièresmanoirunder 1 mi
- Oppidum de Château-Chevriersite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
- Chapelle troglodytechapelleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.