Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes de l'ancien château féodal de Carol
Porta, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château féodal de Carol (restes de l'ancien) (cad. 1927 F 263) : inscription par arrêté du 2 mai 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/05/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château fort
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Porta
- Département
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.49864, 1.84356
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104094
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Du château subsistent deux tours quadrangulaires. Créneaux en hauteur. Meurtrières. Contre la face de la seconde tour est plaqué un pan de mur de l'ancienne enceinte. Le roc sur lequel sont bâties ces tours est à pic et supportait l'ensemble du château.
English translation
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History
From the castle remain two square towers. Crenellations in height. Loopholes. Against the face of the second tower is attached a section of wall of the former enclosure. The rock on which these towers are built is sheer and supported the entire castle.
Nearby in the register
- Viaduc sur le Carolpontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.