En un regard
Le château en bref
Cousserans Castle stands at Bélaye, in the Lot valley. The estate is first mentioned in 1284 among the possessions of the knights of Grézels. In 1472, Pons del Bosc, a merchant who had become a canon of Cahors, bought the ruined tower and had a new castle built in its place, completed around 1479. This Gothic building, constructed of limestone rubble and laid out in a T-plan, combines a five-storey residential block with rounded corners topped by machicolations, a semicircular spiral staircase tower, and a southern wing housing a former chapel with a rib-vaulted ceiling. Largely preserved, the fifteenth-century structure received only a Neo-Gothic balcony on the south façade in 1876. The castle then passed to the Durfort, Gard, Roussy and other families. Its façades and roofs have been listed as historic monuments since 1974. As a privately owned property, it is open to visitors from 1 July to 31 October.