The moats of Cinq-Mars

Château de Cinq-Mars is a château at Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th centuries. It is protected as a monument historique at the higher of the two levels (classé). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.

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The record follows the site from its first known lord in 1050 to the demolition of 1642. What remains is the fifteenth-century guards’ lodging between two round towers, the east tower, the thirteenth-century south tower and the base of the late-twelfth-century keep, all crowned by a fanciful modern crenellation, and a triangular outwork called the Éperon. The moats were remade in the sixteenth century, and the drawbridge replaced by a fixed bridge of three arches. The two surviving towers and the moats with their bridge were classified in 1976. The Base Mérimée records a garden among the site’s features; the moats are the part of it the record describes.

Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00097698 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée

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