Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
fort de Porh-Puns
Gâvres, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- En totalité, le fort de Porh-Puns (cad. AD 01) : inscription par arrêté du 15 septembre 2017
- Protection dates
- 2017/09/15: inscrit MH
- Type
- fort
- Later work
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété publique
- Commune
- Gâvres
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.69075, -3.36148
- Mérimée reference
- PA56000083
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 LibrariesLeiden University Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le fort de Porh-Puns est un site fortifié qui a assuré la défense de l'estuaire du Blavet, c'est-à-dire de la rade de de Port-Louis et de Lorient de la fin du XVIIe siècle au milieu du XXe siècle.
English translation
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History
The fort of Porh-Puns is a fortified site that ensured the defence of the Blavet estuary, that is to say of the road of Port-Louis and Lorient from the late 17th century to the middle of the 20th century.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.