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.

Mature cedars and parkland at Château de Gageac.
Mature cedars and parkland at Château de Gageac. Source credit: Père Igor; CC BY-SA 3.0.Père Igor / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Image source · Crop

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.

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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.

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