Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes de l'ancienne enceinte
Beaugency, Loiret, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Enceinte (restes de l'ancienne) (cad. A 167, 168, 170, 171, 175 à 177, 179 à 182, 184, 191 à 193, 195, 196, 126, 124, 123) : inscription par arrêté du 18 août 1944
- Protection dates
- 1944/08/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fortification d'agglomération
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- place Nationale
- Commune
- Beaugency
- Département
- Loiret
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.78111, 1.63180
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098693
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 1760 map "28 Vendome." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Les restes de l'enceinte présentent une grande muraille d'une dizaine de mètres de hauteur, aux extrémités de laquelle se trouvent encore deux tours dérasées.
English translation
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History
The remains of the rampart present a great wall of about ten metres in height, at the extremities of which are still found two levelled towers.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne prisonprisonunder 1 mi
- Tour dite de l'Horlogeédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Hôtel de villehôtel de villeunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.