Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour Saint-Sauveur
Arles-sur-Tech, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour Saint-Sauveur : inscription par arrêté du 6 septembre 1943
- Protection dates
- 1943/09/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Arles-sur-Tech
- Département
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.45753, 2.63428
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103963
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1662 map "Comitatus Ruscinonis, vulgo Rousillon, in quo Episcopatus Helenensis, Gallicè Evesché d'Elne ou de Perpignan / [Joan Blaeu]" (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tour est un édifice typique des constructions de cette région. De plan carré, les murs de ce clocher présentent, en partie haute, deux étages de baies géminées.
English translation
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History
The tower is a building typical of constructions in this region. Of square plan, the walls of this bell tower present, in the upper part, two storeys of paired openings.
Nearby in the register
- Abbaye Sainte-Marieabbayeunder 1 mi
- Villa Las Indis, actuellement hôtel de villemaisonunder 1 mi
- Carreau miniermineunder 1 mi
- Eglise Santa Creu (ou Sainte-Croix)égliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.