Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pigeonnier du château de Lastours
Lisle-sur-Tarn, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le pigeonnier du château de Lastours (cad. F 610) : inscription par arrêté du 7 avril 2015
- Protection dates
- 2015/04/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pigeonnier
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Lisle-sur-Tarn
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.87151, 1.84633
- Mérimée reference
- PA81000049
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Pigeonnier associé au château du vieux domaine vinicole de Lastours. Sa construction est attribuée aux Calmels qui achètent l'ensemble du bâti au début du 17e siècle et qui restaurent le vieux château. La qualité architecturale et esthétique de ce pigeonnier lui vaut de figurer dans tous les ouvrages traitant du sujet.
Description
Edifice exceptionnel d'une grande perfection formelle et seul vestige significatif de ce que fut le domaine d'origine.
English translation
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History
Pigeon loft associated with the castle of the old wine estate of Lastours. Its construction is attributed to the Calmels who purchase the entire set of buildings in the early 17th century and who restore the old castle. The architectural and aesthetic quality of this pigeon loft is such that it features in all works dealing with the subject.
Description
Exceptional edifice of great formal perfection and sole significant vestige of what was the original estate.
Nearby in the register
- Château Ginestechâteau2 mi
- Ancien hôtel de Boisset-Glassac, actuellement mairiehôtel2 mi
- Fontaine du Griffoulfontaine2 mi
- Maison sise au coin Sud de la placemaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.