Visit of the Viscounts of Béarn

Name: Visit of the Viscounts of Béarn
Start: 2022-09-17T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Château Moncade

Come and discover the Moncade castle keep, its military architecture, its masonry ditch, its 33m high keep and the little-known history of Fébus...

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free. Booking required.

Registration

05 59 69 36 24 Register / book: https://www.chateaumoncade.fr/

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Come and discover the Moncade castle keep, its military architecture, its masonry ditch, its 33m high keep and the little-known history of Fébus...

Moncade Castle was for two centuries the home of the viscounts of Béarn. Built by Gaston VII of Moncade in the thirteenth century, it has one of the first masonry ditches in Europe. Rebuilt in the 14th century by Gaston III of Foix-Béarn dit Fébus, it becomes the setting of a sumptuous court sung throughout the West. Today, the keep is the last vestige of this castle and culminates at 33m high...

About the location

Château Moncade

Rue Moncade, 64300 Orthez

Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Presentation(Display) at the ground floor of the donjon of a copy of the book of hunting, with texts and exhibition(exposure) of enlargements of illuminations. Projection of a filmed visit telling and presenting the history(story) of the castle Moncade, as well as a movie 3D. Exhibition(Exposure) on Gaston Fébus. Reconstruction of the castle Moncade in the 14th century with the Market town Moncade (model with sound and light). Panorama on old Orthez on the terrace.