Flash visits «New excavation site in Coucy: reviews and projects»

Name: Flash visits «New excavation site in Coucy: reviews and projects»
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Château de Coucy

Discover the results of the 2022 campaign excavations, as part of the archaeological excavation site for one of the defensive towers located east of the poultry yard.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Visits at regular times: about 30 minutes

@S.COGNASSON/CMN

In July 2021, the Centre des monuments nationaux, the Association de Mise en Valeur du Château de Coucy (AMVCC) and the Aisne Department launched a new three-year excavation campaign in Coucy. A new survey has been carried out at the foot of one of the towers of the Poultry Court, raising new knowledge about the origins of the fortress of Enguerrand III. Preview the findings of the 2022 campaign.
Duration of the visit: 30 minutes. Last departure at 4.30pm

About the location

Château de Coucy

Rue du Château, 02380 Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique

Aisne
Hauts-de-France

Put at the top of a calcareous spur, the castle of Coucy is protected by three successive levels of defence: that of the city, of the poultry-yard and finally, of the very castle. Edifié by Enguerrand III de Coucy at the beginning of the XIIIth century s. and dismantled by Mazarin in 1652\. Ruins, studied and strengthened by Viollet-le-Duc in the XIXth century s., live(remain) grandiose although seriously mutilated (destruction of four tours(towers,ballots) and of donjon) by the German army in 1917\.