Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Monument aux héros de la mer, jardin Emile-Duclaux, esplanade Napoléon III, jardin du Pharo
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le monument en totalité (cad. 832 A 44) : inscription par arrêté du 23 juillet 2009
- Protection dates
- 2009/07/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- monument
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1913, 1923
- Architect or builder
- Verdilhan André (sculpteur)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- boulevard Charles-Livon
- Commune
- Marseille
- Département
- Bouches-du-Rhône
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.29466, 5.35845
- Mérimée reference
- PA13000058
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 LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Monument inauguré en 1923, représentant deux naufragés anonymes sur un tronçon de barque luttant et appelant à l'aide. Au pied de la vague se trouve étendue une victime de la mer.
English translation
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History
Monument inaugurated in 1923, representing two anonymous shipwrecked persons on a section of boat struggling and calling for help. At the foot of the wave is stretched a victim of the sea.
Nearby in the register
- Palais du Pharopalaisunder 1 mi
- Villa Valmervillaunder 1 mi
- Fort Saint-Jeanfortunder 1 mi
- Église et baptistère Saint-Laurentégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.