Coubladour Castle

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Le château en bref

Coubladour Castle, in Loudes (Haute-Loire), was built between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries around a Romanesque square tower, and was enlarged in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by the Bertrand family, known as de Coubladour. It controlled a Roman road linking Clermont with Saint-Paulien. Louis IX is said to have stayed there in 1245. During the Hundred Years' War, a courtyard was enclosed to shelter villagers and livestock. Degraded in the nineteenth century into a farm, it was bought in 1980 for restoration; its façades, roofs and four chimneys are listed.