Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Village médiéval dit de " Saint-Jean-d'Ortolo "
Sartène, Corse-du-Sud, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Les ruines du village en totalité (cad. L 206, 498) : inscription par arrêté du 10 avril 2009
- Protection dates
- 2009/04/10 : inscrit MH
- Type
- village
- Main period of construction
- Fin du Moyen Age, limite 15e siècle 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Sartène
- Département
- Corse-du-Sud
- Region
- Corse
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 41.57752, 9.02141
- Mérimée reference
- PA2A000005
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1783 map "Corse." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le village semble avoir été construit au milieu du 15e siècle autour d'une petite fortification du 14e siècle. Il est constitué de 28 maisons, d'une forge et de deux ouvrages défensifs en forme de tours. Les fouilles ont permis de montrer qu'il s'agissait de paysans. Ce village est représentatif de ces agglomérations de 50 à 70 feux qui constituaient l'ossature du peuplement à la fin du Moyen-Age, déserté dans le premier quart du 16e siècle. Il représente un exemple unique en Corse d'une grosse agglomération rurale dont l'histoire s'est brutalement interrompue à la fin du Moyen Age.
English translation
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History
The village appears to have been built in the middle of the 15th century around a small fortification of the 14th century. It consists of 28 houses, a forge and two defensive structures in the form of towers. Excavations have shown that these were peasants. This village is representative of these agglomerations of 50 to 70 hearths which constituted the framework of settlement at the end of the Middle Ages, abandoned in the first quarter of the 16th century. It represents a unique example in Corsica of a large rural agglomeration whose history was abruptly interrupted at the end of the Middle Ages.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.