Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Fargues
Fargues, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Les vestiges du logis (cad. C 29) , les communs (cad. C 26, 699) , l'allée de pins et le nymphée du château (cad. D 600, 601) : inscription par arrêté du 11 décembre 2007
- Protection dates
- 2007/12/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Fargues
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.53345, -0.29114
- Mérimée reference
- PA33000099
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Forteresse du 14e siècle, agrandie et bastionnée, puis incendiée au 17e siècle. Ces ruines témoignent de l'un des plus beaux exemples d'architecture militaire de la fin du Moyen-Age et de l'époque moderne.
English translation
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History
14th-century fortress, enlarged and bastioned, then burned in the 17th century. These ruins bear witness to one of the finest examples of military architecture of the late Middle Ages and modern period.
Nearby in the register
- Château d'Yquemchâteau2 mi
- Château de Mallechâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Louiséglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Lienséglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.