En un regard
Le château en bref
Canet Castle overlooks the old village of Canet-en-Roussillon, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, a few kilometres from the Mediterranean. The former seat of the viscounts of Canet, it is attested from the mid-11th century, a period to which sections of its curtain walls and the chapel of Saint-Martin date. The single-nave chapel was vaulted in the 12th century and has an apse surmounted by a fortified tower. Substantially remodelled in the 14th century, the castle received a courtyard with galleries of stone columns and new external fortifications. In September 1415, Emperor Sigismund spent a night there, a sign of the importance of the site. An ice house was built there in 1688. Abandoned after the Revolution, the castle was then used as a quarry for stone. Listed as a monument historique in 1984, it has been restored since the 1960s thanks to the association des Amis du Vieux Canet.