En un regard
Le château en bref
Roquefère Castle lies in the commune of Monflanquin, in the Lot-et-Garonne département, at the southern end of a plateau overlooking the Lède valley and commanding the roads to Castillonnès and Villeréal. This 13th-century fortified castle comprises three residential wings arranged at right angles along three sides of a courtyard, the fourth side being closed by the north entrance tower, which retains a barred gateway, arrow loops and the groove of a portcullis. A square tower to the south-east, a cylindrical tower to the south-west and an octagonal tower at the angle of the east and south wings complete the ensemble; the east wing retains its battlements and wall walk, and the south wing a painted 18th-century ceiling. A former round tower at the edge of the plateau has been converted into a dovecote with about 1,300 nesting boxes (boulins). In 1279, Hugues de Castelmoron sold the lordship to King Edward I, who entrusted it to Jean de Grailly; the future Pope Clement V stayed there in 1305. The façades and roofs have been listed as monuments historiques since 20 June 1963; the castle is privately owned.
