Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Redoute de Château-Pignon
Saint-Michel, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Redoute, ainsi que son sous-sol archéologique (cad. E 20) : inscription par arrêté du 15 septembre 1993
- Protection dates
- 1993/09/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, redoute
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une association
- Commune
- Saint-Michel
- Département
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.07764, -1.25919
- Mérimée reference
- PA00125266
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1772 map "87. Mapa del reyno de Navarra" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Témoin de la défense frontalière au 16e siècle, en 1793-1794 et lors de l'offensive britannique de 1813.
English translation
The text above is the record as published by the Ministère de la Culture, in French. The English below is a machine translation made by TreeAlive, not by the Ministère de la Culture; it has not been checked by a person. Where the two differ, the original is the record. Report a translation error: privacy@treealive.com
History
Witness to frontier defence in the 16th century, in 1793-1794 and during the British offensive of 1813.