Roquetaillade Castle

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Roquetaillade Castle

The Roquetaillade Castle in Mazères , a French commune in the Gironde department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region , was built from the 14th century. The castle in the southwest of the municipality has been classified as a monument historique since 2002 .

The castle was built as a fortified complex on a rectangular floor plan with four corner towers and a donjon in the middle. In the 19th century, it was extensively renovated under Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and his students between 1860 and 1870.

Viollet-le-Duc created the interior with furniture, chimneys and wall paintings.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, 2 volumes, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 842–843.

Web links

Commons : Roquetaillade Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Château de Roquetaillade in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 44 ° 29 ′ 33 ″  N , 0 ° 16 ′ 11 ″  W.