Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien portal de France
Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Portal de France (ancien) : inscription par arrêté du 16 novembre 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/11/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Céret
- Département
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.48555, 2.74715
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103992
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 LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
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
Un des vestiges des remparts de la ville. L'ouvrage a été décoré, vers la fin du 19e siècle, d'un couronnement en terre cuite compressée pour l'accorder aux façades des deux immeubles qui l'encadrent.
English translation
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History
One of the remains of the town ramparts. The structure was decorated, towards the end of the 19th century, with a coping of compressed terracotta to accord it with the façades of the two buildings that frame it.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierreégliseunder 1 mi
- Fontaine publique des Nou Raigtsfontaineunder 1 mi
- Monument aux mortsmonument aux mortsunder 1 mi
- Pont sur le Techpontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.