Château de Gavaudun

On the Lot-et-Garonne castle route

From Duras to Nérac, head off and discover our medieval treasures.

Château de Duras

Château de Duras

The Château de Duras was built during the Middle Ages to defend the Dropt Valley. Initially an invincible citadel, it went through many transformations over the following centuries which would give it an aristocratic-villa-style character and its vocation as an 18th-century leisure castle.

Duras is the town of Dukes and scholars and it left its mark on a certain Marguerite Donnadieu who chose the penname Duras to sign her books.

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Impressive Gavaudun

Château de Gavaudun

The Château de Gavaudun, a medieval fortress built on a rocky outcrop, is a battleship located on the border between Périgord and L'Agenais. The site was already one of military ingenuity, the talent of the builders of the Middle Ages had provided it with its proud warrior qualities.

In spite of its location and despite its architecture reputed as invincible thanks to its entrance which was impossible for cavalrymen to storm, Gavaudun actually fell. Its dungeon, however, continues to impress to this day.

www.chateaudegavaudun.com

In Nérac, a king’s castle

Château de Nérac

Few castles in Lot-et-Garonne can boast of having belonged to a king. The Château de Nérac can however stake a claim to this. The Château de Nérac, built by the d’Albret family on the foundations of a former Gascon fort, overlooks the Baïse River.

Its most illustrious inhabitant was, without any doubt, Henry IV, King of France and of Navarre. Today, only the North wing of the castle remains standing as a testimony to this magnificent period when the d’Albret family reigned over France.

www.nerac.fr

Madaillan, witness of the Hundred Years’ War

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The Hundred Years’ War began in Saint-Sardos, twenty kilometres from the Château de Madaillan which was already used as a lookout over the Bourbon Valley, from its position in the Agenais Pays de Serres (“Serres” means landscape with long, narrow ridged plateaus). It resisted the Wars of Religion but was not left unscathed by time and it is due to the passion of its current owners that the Château de Madaillan has regained its former splendour.

When warlike and residential architecture unite harmoniously.

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