Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Hôtel
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La façade et la toiture sur rue : inscription par arrêté du 8 juillet 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/07/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- hôtel
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- 8 rue Littré
- Commune
- Tours
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.39560, 0.68255
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098185
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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
Au 18e siècle, l'hôtel a appartenu à la famille des Viot, fabricants de soieries à Tours, descendants des Viotti appelés d'Italie par Louis XI. L'hôtel présente une façade principale percée d'une porte cochère en plein cintre, accostée de pilastres et dont l'imposte en fer forgé est timbré du monogramme des Viot.
English translation
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History
In the 18th century, the hôtel belonged to the Viot family, silk manufacturers in Tours, descendants of the Viotti called from Italy by Louis XI. The hôtel presents a main façade pierced by a carriage entrance in a round arch, flanked by pilasters and whose wrought-iron fanlight is charged with the monogram of the Viots.
Nearby in the register
- Maison du 15e sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
- Hôtelhôtelunder 1 mi
- Hôtel du 18e sièclehôtelunder 1 mi
- Hôtel du 18e sièclehôtelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.