Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Arènes
Estang, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Arènes (cad. AC 163) : inscription par arrêté du 15 novembre 1993
- Protection dates
- 1993/11/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- arène
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1901
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Estang
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.86743, -0.10660
- Mérimée reference
- PA00125586
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1856 map "Dept. Du Gers." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Arènes aménagées à partir de 1901 et jusqu'en 1928, d'une capacité de 2 000 places assises. La charpente en bois est peinte en rouge "sang de boeuf". Intérêt ethnologique de ce témoin de la pratique tauromachique de cette région.
English translation
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History
Arena fitted out from 1901 until 1928, with a capacity of 2,000 seated places. The wooden roof structure is painted red "ox blood". Ethnological interest of this witness to the practice of bullfighting in this region.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dameégliseunder 1 mi
- Château de Manibanchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.