Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Dorches (restes)
Chanay, Ain, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de la Dorches (restes) : inscription par arrêté du 9 mars 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/03/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Dorches (la)
- Commune
- Chanay
- Département
- Ain
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.99651, 5.79489
- Mérimée reference
- PA00116361
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportailswisstopo — Federal Office of Topography
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1632 map "Description du Pais de Bresse." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.
Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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