Gironde

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de La Brède

La Brède is the house where Montesquieu was born in 1689 and where he always returned to work, between Bordeaux, Paris and travels in Europe. Built in the Middle Ages by the Lalande family as a lowland fortress, the château near Bordeaux gradually traded its defenses for windows and a reflecting…

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Roquetaillade

Two castles stand on one base of rock at Roquetaillade, an old castle and a new one built in 1306 with funds from Pope Clement V, and the same family has always lived there. A fortress raised when Bordeaux belonged to England, it hides behind its military walls the interiors Eugène Viollet-le-Duc…