Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Oppidum du Castellar
Eze, Alpes-Maritimes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Oppidum (cad. AT 73 à 77, 157, 162 à 165) : inscription par arrêté du 5 septembre 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/09/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, oppidum
- Main period of construction
- Antiquité
- Ownership
- propriété privée, propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Eze
- Département
- Alpes-Maritimes
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.72908, 7.38788
- Mérimée reference
- PA06000002
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1690 map "Il Corso del Fiume Rodano" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Oppidum occupé du 5e au 1er siècle avant notre ère et comportant des maisons en terrasse, une triple enceinte et des pierres levées.
English translation
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History
Oppidum occupied from the 5th to the 1st century before our era and comprising terraced houses, a triple fortification and standing stones.
Nearby in the register
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