Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château d'Yquem
Sauternes, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château en totalité (cad. D 188) : inscription par arrêté du 21 août 2003
- Protection dates
- 2003/08/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château, établissement vinicole
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 17e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Commune
- Sauternes
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.54476, -0.32878
- Mérimée reference
- PA33000071
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Les bâtiments du château forment un quadrilatère autour d'une vaste cour. L'essentiel de l'édifice remonte aux 16e et 17e siècles. Une partie du décor de cette dernière période est conservé : fresques de la chapelle, cheminées du corps de logis principal, beaux vestiges d'un ensemble de fresques formant un cycle dédié à la chasse.
English translation
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History
The castle buildings form a quadrilateral around a vast courtyard. The main part of the building dates from the 16th and 17th centuries. Part of the decoration from this latter period is preserved: frescoes of the chapel, fireplaces of the main dwelling block, fine remains of a set of frescoes forming a cycle dedicated to hunting.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Rayne-Vigneauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Lienséglise1 mi
- Château de La Sallechâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre aux Lienséglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.