Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Mariac
Lafarre, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château en totalité (cad. AS 431) : inscription par arrêté du 9 avril 2001
- Protection dates
- 2001/04/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château fort
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Lafarre
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.84890, 3.98606
- Mérimée reference
- PA43000020
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 1777 map "89 Le Puy." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette tour se rattache à un ensemble de constructions médiévales caractéristiques du système seigneurial des 12e et 13e siècles s'appuyant sur des tours et forteresses à usage à la fois militaire et résidentiel à haute valeur symbolique.
English translation
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History
This tower belongs to a group of medieval constructions characteristic of the feudal system of the 12th and 13th centuries based on towers and fortresses with both military and residential use and high symbolic value.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.