En un regard
Le château en bref
Calvisson Castle (Gard), built in the 11th century as the residence of the viscounts, had two towers almost 20 metres high linked by a 27-metre-long intermediate hall. Ceded in 1264 by the House of Uzès to the King of France, it became a royal domain; in 1304, Philip the Fair installed Guillaume de Nogaret there as lord of Calvisson and of the Vaunage. Heavily damaged and then dismantled during the Wars of Religion, it was the subject of an unsuccessful attempt at reconstruction by the baron Jean de Louet in 1597. Today, only a few sections of wall and two rooms remain; a grain mill, built in 1714 on the castle hill and later converted into a mausoleum, is still visible on the site.