Château de Salignac

English translation

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History

During the Hundred Years War, the castle passed alternately into the hands of the French and the English. It must have emerged sufficiently ruined to be rebuilt in the 16th century and to participate in the Wars of Religion. The edifice is built on a rocky spur. It comprises a first polygonal enclosure consisting of a wall supported by a few buttresses, provided in the 16th century with a few corner towers at the angles. In the eastern advance, a staircase descends to a postern defended by two superimposed arrow-slits. Set back from this first rampart, the original castle stood sheltered behind a second wall. Access was by an entrance gatehouse. This original castle comprised a square keep to the south of which were the buildings of which only the base of the walls remains. In the 16th century, it was replaced by a second castle composed of a rectangular main dwelling ending in a large square tower and, at the north-east and south-east angles, round towers. To the south-east, in return, a building containing the chapels. That of the ground floor dates back to the 12th century. Above, a second chapel must have been rebuilt later.