Gageac-et-Rouillac · Dordogne
Château de Gageac and its cedar avenue
Taken by the Duke of Anjou and Du Guesclin on their return from the siege of Duras in 1370, Gageac keeps its fortified court of ramparts, towers and bartizans in the Bergerac country.
From the source
Château de Gageac is a château at Gageac-et-Rouillac, Dordogne, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 15th and 16th centuries. It is protected as a monument historique at the second level (inscrit). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
The record tells the château’s medieval story and describes the oblong main block with its square machicolated towers and mullioned windows inside a court closed by ramparts, with a Louis XIV door and wrought-iron knocker in the inner courtyard. It says nothing of the grounds. The cedar avenue photographed here is documented only by its image, which notes it was badly damaged in the storm of December 1999.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00082563 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gageac-et-Rouillac%20ch%C3%A2teau%20Gageac%20%281%29.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
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