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Le château en bref
Château d'Aiguèze, in the medieval village classified among Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (Gard), was fortified as early as the XIth-XIIth centuries to control the Borian ford and navigation on the Ardèche, whose gorges it overlooks from a cliffside site. Passed from the bishop of Viviers to the count of Toulouse and then to the French crown, it was taken and dismantled in 1382 during the Tuchins revolt, which laid waste to the village. The reconstruction, from 1500 onwards, produced an original building combining Renaissance façades with a medieval vaulted ground floor. From the XVIth century, the barons preferred the Château du Bousquet on the opposite bank, and the austere fortified house of Aiguèze was gradually abandoned; today it lies in ruins. The wall walk overlooking the Ardèche still passes beneath the keep and the Tour Sarrasine.