Château de Montastruc

En un regard

Le château en bref

Perched above the Caudeau valley, the Château de Montastruc takes its name from the Latin “mons adstructum”, the “fortified hill”. Built from the 13th century onwards by the d'Abzac family, who fortified it in 1329, it was razed on the orders of Charles VII after the Hundred Years' War and then rebuilt in 1471. Besieged by Blaise de Montluc in 1568 during the Wars of Religion, it surrendered under the fire of two cannons. A second main building was added between 1760 and 1780, and the park was redesigned in the 19th century. In June 1940 it briefly sheltered Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg in exile, and Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary passed through. Privately owned since 1998, it retains three towers, a rampart with machicolations, a chapel, stables and a dovecote.