Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Site du Castellas
Gignac, Hérault, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Ensemble formé par la tour médiévale et l'aire du Castellas (cad. E 474, 475) : inscription par arrêté du 28 juillet 1999
- Protection dates
- 1999/07/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Gignac
- Département
- Hérault
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.65073, 3.55032
- Mérimée reference
- PA34000020
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1752 map "Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Exemple caractéristique du type de tour-donjon de fort d'agglomération d'époque médiévale.
English translation
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History
Characteristic example of the type of tower-keep of medieval settlement fort.
Nearby in the register
- Hôtel de Laurèshôtelunder 1 mi
- Hospicehospiceunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreégliseunder 1 mi
- Chemin de croix de Notre-Dame-de-Grâcemont calvaireunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.