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16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé
Septembre 2023
Samedi 16
08:00 - 22:00
Dimanche 17
08:00 - 22:00

Forteresse médiévale de Crozant

Route Isabelle-d'Angoulême, 23160 Crozant
  • Creuse
  • Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Visit of the medieval fortress

Located on an almost-island at the crossroads between two rivers, La Creuse and La Sédelle, the castle of Crozant was to be invulnerable....
16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé
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Located on an almost-island at the crossroads between two rivers, La Creuse and La Sédelle, Crozant Castle was to be invulnerable.
A rich and ancient history surrounds this stronghold located in a particularly strategic location.
Today, only the ruins of the medieval fortress remain.
About 75m above the Creuse, on a space of 380m in length and 25 to 75m in width, the ruins are revealed to the visitor at the bend of a path.
Accessible by a bridge spanning a ditch and defended by several angular towers. Today in ruins, this primitive chestnut constitutes by its defensive elements, a voluminous rectangular tower-door. In the thirteenth century, more buildings were built thanks to Hugues de Lusignan. The castle is then cut into 3 yards on about a kilometer long.
The buildings then developed over several hundred meters long, from the entrance châtelet to the Colin tower.
After a first courtyard associated with the entrance system, one reached an intermediate complex, dominated by a large quadrangular tower which certainly served as a dwelling for the captain of the square.
Then we reached the great northern courtyard, whose rocky core bore the large circular tower, the Renard tower, the chapel of the counts and, no doubt, a dwelling.
Despite several successive campaigns of construction and apart from some rare remodeling of the late Middle Ages, the ensemble bears the mark of the thirteenth century.

Types d'événement
Visite libre
Thèmes 2023
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Conditions de participation
Gratuit
Type de public
Tout public

À propos du lieu

Forteresse médiévale de Crozant
Route Isabelle-d'Angoulême, 23160 Crozant
  • Creuse
  • Nouvelle-Aquitaine
In the confluence of the Creuse and of Sédelle, the vestiges of the Fortress of Crozant raise themselves(draw themselves up) at the top of a large rocky headland. Fortified town of medieval France, the fortress was also at the end of the XIXth century and at the beginning of the XXth century a place of inspiration for the painters of the School of Crozant.
Tags
Monument historique, Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir, Site archéologique & Édifice militaire, enceinte urbaine
Accès
Free parking at the foot of the Fortress.
©Conseil Départemental de la Creuse