Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Favars, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Tour : inscription par arrêté du 22 août 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/08/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Favars
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.26139, 1.67785
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099775
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 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tour de guet et de défense est le vestige d'un ancien château qui dépendait de la vicomté de Turenne. Elle est ronde avec une petite tourelle d'escalier sur cul de lampe pour accéder à la terrasse. Deux salles intérieures voûtées en arcs de cloître. Mâchicoulis sur corbeaux restaurés.
English translation
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History
The watch and defensive tower is the vestige of a former castle which depended on the viscounty of Turenne. It is round with a small staircase turret on a cul-de-lampe to access the terrace. Two interior chambers vaulted in cloister arches. Machicolations on restored corbels.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.