Château de Ribérac

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château de Ribérac, founded around the 10th century by Alchier-le-Sourd on the height overlooking the Dronne, was the seat of the lords and later viscounts of Ribérac, passing through marriage alliances to the de Pons, d'Aydie and then Chapt families. In 1565, Marie de Foix received King Charles IX and Catherine de' Medici there. Threatening ruin from the late 18th century, the building was gradually demolished in the 19th century, its stones being reused for roads and public buildings; the artist Léo Drouyn drew its remains in 1854. Nothing of it survives today, with houses occupying the former site of the rampart. Only the church of Notre-Dame, founded in 1500 by Odet d'Aydie and Anne de Pons and decorated with precious wall paintings, still bears witness to this history.