Château de Pène

En un regard

Le château en bref

Perched on a limestone spur overlooking the Agly, at Cases-de-Pène, the Château de Pène was a fortress of medieval Roussillon. First mentioned in the eleventh century, it passed from the counts of Besalú to local lords, then to the priory of Espirà-de-l'Agly in the thirteenth century, before being abandoned at the end of the Middle Ages. Only scant remains survive at the summit of the rock: a few stretches of wall and the site of a watchtower. Its stones were used to build the sanctuary of Notre-Dame-de-Pène, a pilgrimage hermitage whose chapel has been listed as a historic monument since 1992.