La Mothe at Persac: moat, mound and surviving ground

Château de la Mothe is a château at Persac, Vienne, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The recorded building campaign dates from the 16th century. 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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## What the sources establish Persac's municipality describes La Mothe on a mound with surviving traces of ditches and proposes an uncertain early origin. The regional architectural inventory records rebuilding in the first half of the fifteenth century, a possible later stair tower and a nineteenth-century addition. These accounts do not establish one agreed foundation date. The inventory also records a courtyard, moat, bridge and canal; it does not document a designed pleasure garden. ## Our reading We suggest looking at the transition between the village, the raised site and its surviving edges. The contrast between enclosure and approach can be read without inventing a planting history. Later alterations also remind us that a landscape setting changes with use. This is our interpretation of the documented spatial features, rather than a reconstruction of a medieval garden. ## Before visiting The municipal page limits access to heritage days and exhibitions announced by the local association. Confirm arrangements before travelling. Its statement about an accessible park concerns the separate Château de la Brûlonnière, not La Mothe; it should not be used as permission to enter these grounds. Sources: [Persac municipality — La Mothe](https://persac.fr/decouvrir-persac/histoire-patrimoine/); [Regional inventory, IA00046838](https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/IA00046838).

Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00105577 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée

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