Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Viescamp
Lacapelle-Viescamp, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château, y compris le grand salon, la salle à manger et les latrines (cad. A 155) : inscription par arrêté du 25 novembre 1994
- Protection dates
- 1994/11/25 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 2e moitié 18e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Lacapelle-Viescamp
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.91968, 2.28029
- Mérimée reference
- PA00132792
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Donjon carré médiéval (15e siècle, sur des bases du 13e siècle) , agrandi au 18e siècle par l'adjonction d'un important corps de logis. Décor intérieur de la fin du 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
Medieval square keep (15th century, on bases of the 13th century), enlarged in the 18th century by the addition of a substantial main dwelling. Interior decoration of the late 19th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.