Château de la Rouquette

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Le château en bref

Château de la Rouquette, at Pellegrue (Gironde), replaced a Gallo-Roman site; a feudal motte or a fortified house previously defended the north-western part of the hillside, and the château itself dates back to the fourteenth century. Rebuilt in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it features a rampart on the south-eastern façade, later reduced to a terrace, two round towers to the north-west marking off the lower courtyard, and former ditches that have since been filled in. It is presented as one of the most important castéras on the left bank of the Durèze, and today operates as a wine château following restorations in the twentieth century.