Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Parties subsistantes du château
Tautavel, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (parties subsistantes) (cad. A 128) : inscription par arrêté du 17 mars 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/03/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Tautavel
- Département
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.81122, 2.74692
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104140
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 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
La première mention du château remonte à 1012. Partiellement détruit en 1474 pendant l'occupation de la province par Louis XI, l'édifice fut définitivement démantelé à l'explosif après le traité des Pyrénées (1659). Le château était naturellement défendu sur son flanc ouest par une paroi verticale. A l'est, la pente étant plus douce, l'aménagement d'un système défensif s'imposait. Il n'en reste plus que quelques bases de murs et la base d'une tour cylindrique. Le château proprement dit est séparé du premier ensemble défensif par un fossé en partie naturel, en partie taillé, conférant au château la position d'un édifice sur éperon barré.
English translation
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History
The first mention of the château dates back to 1012. Partially destroyed in 1474 during the occupation of the province by Louis XI, the building was definitively dismantled by explosives after the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659). The château was naturally defended on its western flank by a vertical wall. To the east, the slope being gentler, the arrangement of a defensive system was necessary. Only the bases of some walls and the base of a cylindrical tower remain. The château proper is separated from the first defensive complex by a moat partly natural, partly quarried, giving the château the position of a building on a barred spur.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.