Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Edifice appelé la Tour du Loup
La Bastide-de-Sérou, Ariège, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour (cad. C 2623, 2624) : inscription par arrêté du 7 décembre 1994, modifié par arrêté du 27 mars 1995
- Protection dates
- 1994/12/07 : inscrit MH, 1995/03/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- La Bastide-de-Sérou
- Département
- Ariège
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.01719, 1.41279
- Mérimée reference
- PA00135428
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "39 St. Lizier, St. Martory." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour illustrant parfaitement la technique défensive de l'éperon barré. Le logis de forme quadrangulaire à l'angle sud-est arrondi, épouse le contour le plus extrême d'une éminence dominant la vallée de l'Arize. Des vestiges d'enceinte subsistent à l'ouest. Son appellation viendrait de Loup de Foix, fils naturel de Raymond-Roger.
English translation
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History
Tower perfectly illustrating the defensive technique of the barred spur. The dwelling of quadrangular form with the rounded south-east angle, follows the most extreme contour of an eminence dominating the valley of the Arize. Remnants of fortification subsist to the west. Its name would derive from Loup de Foix, natural son of Raymond-Roger.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.