En un regard
Le château en bref
Baulx Castle overlooks the village of Saint-Jean-de-Buèges, in the Hérault department. A watch tower was built there in the 12th century to keep watch over the Buèges valley, on a lordship attested as early as 990. Enlarged in the 13th and 14th centuries by the Caladon and then the Trinquère families, who added a loopholed curtain wall, a dry moat and a cistern, it received in 1680 a residential wing built for François de Ratte, lord of Cambous. Described as a ruin and quarry of stone as early as 1749, the castle passed between several families before being given to the commune in 1987 by Joseph Sicard. Since 1991 it has been undergoing restoration supported by local authorities and the State, under the direction of a chief architect of historic monuments, while the association Les Compagnons de Tras Castel handles the promotion of the site.