Château de Montendre

En un regard

Le château en bref

Perched on a rocky spur overlooking Montendre at an altitude of 114 metres, the château bears the traces of an eventful history, from the Gallo-Roman oppidum to the medieval fortress contested during the Hundred Years' War. Of its fortified past there remain a square tower, a round tower and sections of curtain wall, now incorporated into a public park offering a panorama over the Gironde estuary. Turned into a place for walks as early as 1923 and then bequeathed to the town in 1953, it houses a museum of popular arts and traditions and an open-air theatre that comes alive every summer.