Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour du Grand-Travers
La Grande-Motte, Hérault, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour (cad. BD 9) : inscription par arrêté du 10 mai 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/05/10 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'un établissement public de l'État
- Commune
- La Grande-Motte
- Département
- Hérault
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.56050, 4.03796
- Mérimée reference
- PA34000006
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 1703 map "Parie Orientale Du Gouvernement General De Languedoc .." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Elément de la fortification du littoral languedocien, établie au 18e siècle. Exemple caractéristique de tour à signaux.
English translation
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History
Element of the fortification of the Languedoc coast, established in the 18th century. Characteristic example of a signal tower.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.