Archbishops' Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Of the Archbishops' Castle at Étalans, at the foot of the Jura, nothing remains but the outline of a vast rectangular enclosure measuring about 120 m by 110 m, bounded by an earth rampart and ditches. The site is now grassed over and almost no masonry is visible. The fortress was built in the second half of the 13th century by the Archbishopric of Besançon, lord of the place, and was later set on fire and reduced to ruins in 1639 by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War. The remains, which are privately owned, have been listed as monuments historiques since 1982 (order amended in 1983).