Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont-aqueduc des Cinq-Cantons (ouvrage d'art du canal de Carpentras)
Loriol-du-Comtat, Vaucluse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le pont-aqueduc, en totalité (cad. C 447 ; D 157) : inscription par arrêté du 6 novembre 2001
- Protection dates
- 2001/11/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- canal, pont aqueduc
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1853
- Architect or builder
- CONTE (ingénieur), PERRIER (ingénieur), MASSELIN (ingénieur), GENDARME (ingénieur)
- Ownership
- propriété d'un établissement public
- Commune
- Loriol-du-Comtat
- Département
- Vaucluse
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.06810, 5.02589
- Mérimée reference
- PA84000030
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 LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1838 map "Montpellier" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le pont témoigne de la volonté d'irriguer et de mettre en valeur le maximum de terres agricoles. Il enjambe une large dépression pour joindre la branche mère du canal de Carpentras. Le pont est plus long que celui de Galas (253 mètres) mais il est moins haut (11 mètres).
English translation
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History
The bridge bears witness to the desire to irrigate and develop as much agricultural land as possible. It spans a wide depression to join the main branch of the Carpentras canal. The bridge is longer than that of Galas (253 metres) but it is lower (11 metres).
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Santé et pont de Serreschapelle1 mi
- Ancien couvent de la Visitation Sainte-Mariecouvent1 mi
- Immeubleimmeuble1 mi
- Fontainefontaine1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.