Château de Matha

En un regard

Le château en bref

A stone sentinel standing since the 9th century, the Château de Matha has seen the succession of the counts of Angoulême, deposed queens and great Saintonge families. Razed on the orders of Saint Louis in 1242 and then rebuilt as a Renaissance pavilion in the 16th century, it has preserved of its medieval power only a fortified fragment, now municipal property and a witness to more than a thousand years of local history.