Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour
Viala-du-Pas-de-Jaux, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour et ses annexes (cad. A 273 à 277) : inscription par arrêté du 16 mars 1993
- Protection dates
- 1993/03/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- grenier public
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Dates
- 1430
- Ownership
- propriété privée, propriété d'une association
- Commune
- Viala-du-Pas-de-Jaux
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.95688, 3.05650
- Mérimée reference
- PA00125562
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 15: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
A l'origine (1430) , la tour servait de lieu de stockage des céréales de la région. Elle présentait sept étages. Les écuries et la salle de garde se situent dans un bâtiment annexe. Au 17e siècle, le rez-de-chaussée aveugle, voûté en berceau, servait de prison. Importance du monument dans l'histoire du Larzac.
English translation
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History
Originally (1430), the tower served as a storage place for cereals from the region. It had seven storeys. The stables and guard room are situated in an annexed building. In the 17th century, the blind ground floor, vaulted with a barrel vault, served as a prison. Importance of the monument in the history of Larzac.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.