Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Béon
Aste-Béon, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château en totalité (cad. AM 114) : inscription par arrêté du 1er mars 2005
- Protection dates
- 2005/03/01 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison forte, château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 1ère moitié 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Aste-Béon
- Département
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.03453, -0.41822
- Mérimée reference
- PA64000053
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1779 map "108 Pau, Bearn." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Bâtiment quadrangulaire érigé sans doute au 14e siècle, puis renforcé ultérieurement de tourelles d'angle et percé de fenêtres au début du 17e siècle. L'intérieur conserve une série de cheminées anciennes.
English translation
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History
Quadrangular building erected probably in the 14th century, then subsequently reinforced with corner turrets and pierced with windows in the early 17th century. The interior preserves a series of ancient fireplaces.
Nearby in the register
- Maison forte dite La Tour d'Oremaison forteunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Vivienéglise2 mi
- Monument aux morts de la guerre 1914-1918, situé près de la Mairiemonument aux morts2 mi
- Château de Biellechâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.