En un regard
Le château en bref
Bassoues Castle (Gers) was built by the Archbishop of Auch, Arnaud Aubert, who commissioned the keep in 1368, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, to protect the bastide of Bassoues; upon his death in 1371, his successor, Jean Roger de Beaufort, continued the works. In the 17th century, Archbishop Henri de La Mothe-Houdancourt had the dilapidated main residential building rebuilt, erecting a structure flanked by two corbelled towers. The keep, a square tower 8 metres on each side and 43 metres high, with walls more than 2 metres thick, has four storeys equipped with fireplaces, latrines and washbasins, is crowned by a wall walk on machicolations, and is flanked by corner buttresses. It was listed as a monument historique in 1840, the first in the Gers to be so designated, while the main residential building was registered in 1944.