En un regard
Le château en bref
Mosset Castle, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, is built around a polygonal enceinte from the 11th–12th centuries, pierced with arrow slits and fitted with a bretèche supported on three corbels. The site is mentioned under the name villa Mosseto in 958; in 1175, King Alphonse authorised Pierre de Domanova to erect a fortified building there. The castle passed to the Canet family in the 14th century, to the viscounts of Ille in 1344, and then to Berenger d'Oms (1375, 1428). Attacked by Joyeuse during the Wars of Religion, it was restored in 1563 by Galceran de Cruilles. Its rectangular main body, with corner turrets topped by pepperpot roofs, opens onto two courtyards, El Plaçal and La Cavalleria. Privately owned, it can only be seen from the outside.