Rochegude Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Perched on a rocky spur above the Allier gorges, in the commune of Saint-Privat-d'Allier (Haute-Loire), the Rochegude fortress is mentioned as early as 1225 under the name castrum de Rocha Aguda, "the sharp rock". Passing to the Montlaur family in the 13th century, it commanded an extensive mandement covering the mountainous part of the Velay and watched over the road to the Gévaudan, on the boundary between the dioceses of Le Puy and Clermont. Of the enceinte and the keep, only a single ruined tower survives, adjacent to the Romanesque castle chapel of Saint-Jacques, a stopping point for pilgrims on the Way of St James.