Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes des arènes gallo-romaines
Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Arènes gallo-romaines (restes) : inscription par arrêté du 3 octobre 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/10/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- arène
- Main period of construction
- Gallo-romain, 4e quart 1er siècle, 2e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place des Carmes
- Commune
- Limoges
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100330
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Arènes construites sans doute sous le règne de Trajan paraissent avoir pu contenir vingt mille personnes. Lors de son passage à Limoges, Louis le Débonnaire autorisa les moines de Saint-Martial à prendre pour construire leur couvent des matériaux dans les arènes, ce qui commença leur démolition. Complètement ruinées au 15e siècle, elles furent enterrées sous deux mètres de terre pour constituer le jardin actuel. Un bloc de maçonnerie émerge du sol.
English translation
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History
Arenas built probably during the reign of Trajan appear to have been able to contain twenty thousand people. During his passage through Limoges, Louis the Pious authorized the monks of Saint-Martial to take materials from the arenas to build their convent, which began their demolition. Completely ruined by the 15th century, they were buried under two metres of earth to form the present garden. A block of masonry emerges from the ground.