En un regard
Le château en bref
The Château de Limeuil once overlooked the confluence of the Dordogne and the Vézère, at the top of the medieval village of Limeuil, one of the Plus Beaux Villages de France (Most Beautiful Villages of France). Mentioned as early as 1179 under the name Castrum Limolium, it was a stake in the Hundred Years' War: in 1438, a forty-day siege dislodged its English garrison, then some 1,500 men strong. Dismantled over the centuries, all that remains today is the base of the keep, a well, underground passages and vaulted cellars. In 1902, Dr Fernand Linarès, a Périgord physician who had served the Sultan of Morocco, bought the ruins and laid out on their site a landscaped park blending English, Hispano-Moorish and Renaissance influences. After a long period of neglect, the commune of Limeuil acquired the site in 1997 and entrusted its restoration to the association Au Fil du Temps from 2004 onwards. The site, now the Jardins Panoramiques de Limeuil, offers a 360-degree panorama over the confluence.