Château de Puget-Rostang

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Le château en bref

The Château de Puget-Rostang is a former fortified castle that occupied two successive sites. Until around 1100, it stood on the summit of Mont Cimaillon, near the former parish of Saint-Julien, on a territory that then encompassed the present-day communes of Puget-Rostang, Rigaud and Auvare. At the beginning of the 12th century, this vast fief was divided and the seigneury of Rigaud became a separate entity. In the 13th century, amid tensions between the lords of the upland country, including the Glandevès family, and the Counts of Provence, the castle was rebuilt on the present site of the village. The surviving keep forms the heart of the fortified village of Puget-Rostang, around which the houses clustered in a horseshoe pattern. The enclosed village once had three gates. Several families succeeded one another as lords of the place: Elzéar de Daluis in 1402, Georges de Castellane in 1528, the Boéri family from 1681, then Champoussin in 1786. During the French Revolution, the keep was occasionally used to quarter troops. Today the monument remains an architectural landmark of the hilltop village.