Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour d'angle, dite tour du Viguier
Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façade et toiture (cad. E 337) : inscription par arrêté du 16 décembre 1982
- Protection dates
- 1982/12/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes
- Département
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.81291, 2.37513
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103986
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(23) Cataloniae." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Selon l'usage des 17e et 18e siècles, le propriétaire a fait édififer cette tour mour marquer sa noblesse d'un signe visible. La tour en calcaire maçonné, est bâtie sur encorbellement.
English translation
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History
According to the usage of the 17th and 18th centuries, the proprietor had this tower erected to mark his nobility with a visible sign. The tower in masoned limestone, is built on corbels.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dame-de-Lavalégliseunder 1 mi
- Vestiges du château Saint-Pierre de Fenouilletchâteau1 mi
- Castel Sabarda (vestiges du château de Sabarda et de l'ancienne église Saint-André)château2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.