Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien château, dit Mas de Las Fons
Calce, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle, porche d'entrée, enceinte avec sa poterne (cad. D 130) : inscription par arrêté du 29 mars 1993
- Protection dates
- 1993/03/29 : inscrit MH partiellement
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Calce
- Département
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.74016, 2.74970
- Mérimée reference
- PA00125500
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
3 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
Citée dès le 12e siècle, cette dépendance de Lagrasse s'est développée autour d'une cour triangulaire et de la chapelle Sainte-Marie, édifice roman du 12e siècle. Sur des bases du 11e siècle, l'ensemble a été fortifié du 12e au 15e siècle (enceinte talutée, porche double à l'ouest, poterne à l'est).
English translation
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History
Mentioned from the 12th century, this dependency of Lagrasse developed around a triangular courtyard and the chapel Sainte-Marie, a Romanesque building of the 12th century. On bases from the 11th century, the ensemble was fortified from the 12th to the 15th century (sloped enceinte, double porch to the west, postern to the east).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.