Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes du château
Clermont-l'Hérault, Hérault, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (restes) : inscription par arrêté du 28 juin 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/06/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Commune
- Clermont-l'Hérault
- Département
- Hérault
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.62972, 3.42824
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103438
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1778 map "57. Lodeve." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
De l'ancien château subsiste un donjon cylindrique enfermé dans une vaste enceinte en forme de demi-cercle, flanquée de sept tours rondes et se reliant à chaque extrémité aux remparts de la ville.
English translation
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History
Of the former castle there remains a cylindrical keep enclosed within a vast enclosure in the shape of a semicircle, flanked by seven round towers and connecting at each end to the ramparts of the town.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien couvent Notre-Dame de Gorjancouventunder 1 mi
- Tour de Bassolhe et sa portion de courtineenceinteunder 1 mi
- Maison Brivesmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.