Château du Pouy

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Le château en bref

At the hamlet of Le Pouy, in the commune of Saint-Martin-de-Hinx, stands a Landes château with a turbulent history. According to Jacques Gardelles, a specialist in the castles of English Gascony, a fortress is said to have been built there around 1311 without the approval of the King of England, who then ruled the region. The lordship remained in the hands of the Bédorède family until 1712, before passing to the Lalande d'Olce family, who still held it in the 1970s. Fallen into ruin in the nineteenth century, the building was extensively restored in the early twentieth century. The château today presents a rectangular body with a regular façade, lit by mullioned windows and flanked at its corners by three round towers, two of which are crowned with battlements. It combines limestone and rubble masonry covered in render, under a roof of pantiles. It is a private residence.