Brassac Castle

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Le château en bref

Brassac Castle, in the Tarn-et-Garonne, is a quadrangular structure flanked by four round towers, dating from the twelfth or thirteenth century. At the end of the twelfth century, Raymond V of Toulouse bought the castle and its lordship and entrusted its keeping to the routier chief Durand Mercader, who probably began its construction. A well, a wall encircling the hill and a palisade were added in the thirteenth century. In 1356, during the Hundred Years' War, the English captain John Chandos seized it; it later fell into Protestant hands during the Wars of Religion. Its upper part was razed during the Revolution, with the exception of one fifteenth-century side. The base houses vaulted guardrooms which, according to the heritage record, are unique in the region. Registered as a historic monument in 1926, it was classified in 1979 for the twelfth-century sections and for the façades and roofs of the fifteenth-century residence.