Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes de la bastide
Olette, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Bastide (restes) : inscription par arrêté du 9 mars 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/03/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- demeure
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Olette
- Département
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.55950, 2.29197
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104057
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 — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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
Jean de So, vicomte d'Evol, fit construire en 1340, non loin d'Olette, un château de défense dit "La Bastide" ou "La Bastida Nova", par opposition au château-fort d'Evol déjà construit. Vers la fin du 15e siècle, une centaine d'habitants se groupèrent autour du château. Le village fortifié disparut vers 1635. En 1820, le propriétaire de la bastide fit tout abattre et ne conserva que les deux tours qui subsistent. Le château se composait d'un carré dont les angles étaient protégés par des tours circulaires dont deux subsistent. La maison d'habitation était appuyée contre le mur oriental, à gauche de la porte d'entrée. Le reste était entouré de fossés entre lesquels était une esplanade ou un petit jardin.
English translation
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History
Jean de So, viscount of Evol, had constructed in 1340, not far from Olette, a defensive castle called "La Bastide" or "La Bastida Nova", in opposition to the castle-fort of Evol already built. Towards the end of the 15th century, about a hundred inhabitants grouped around the castle. The fortified village disappeared around 1635. In 1820, the owner of the bastide had everything demolished and retained only the two towers which remain. The castle was composed of a square, whose angles were protected by circular towers, two of which survive. The main dwelling was leant against the eastern wall, to the left of the entrance gate. The rest was surrounded by moats between which was an esplanade or a small garden.
Nearby in the register
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- Église paroissiale Saint-Côme-et-Damienéglise2 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.