Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fort Saint-Elme
Collioure, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le fort : inscription par arrêté du 2 avril 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/04/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fort
- Main period of construction
- 8e siècle, milieu 16e siècle, 4e quart 17e siècle
- Architect or builder
- Vauban Sébastien Le Prestre de, marquis (ingénieur militaire)
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Collioure
- Département
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.51864, 3.09400
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104003
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
3 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
Tour construite par les Maures au 8e siècle ; Plan de Benedetto de Ravenne pour la construction du Fort en étoile de 1538 à 1552 ; Vauban pour les fossés et les ajouts du système défensif à partir de 1680.
English translation
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History
Tower constructed by the Moors in the 8th century; Plan by Benedetto da Ravenna for the construction of the Star Fort from 1538 to 1552; Vauban for the ditches and additions to the defensive system from 1680 onwards.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne église et ancien couvent des Dominicainscouventunder 1 mi
- Fort Dugommierfortunder 1 mi
- Place de l'Obélisqueplaceunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.