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Castelnaud Castle

Description: Le Chateau de Castelnaud / 24250 Castelnaud la Chapelle / Dordogne Valley / France / Tel: +33 553313000 / Perched with ... more

Castelnaud Castle ... hillside on left bank of the Dordogne, Castelnaud dominates the small borough coiled with its feet. Its former owners, vassal of kings of England, opposed a long time to their neighbors, the lords de Beynac, faithful to kings de France. If the protagonists of these remote quarrels have all disappeared, the two fortresses always continue their immutable face to face, like a mineral challenge with the lapse of memory and the ravages of time.

Newest Review: ... so no surprise on the inflated price). Parking was an extra 2,50 euro if I remember right and this is located a short, but steep walk, through some tightly packed streets made up mostly of a mixture of ice-creams bars and restaurants with a few small tourist shops, nothing too tacky and there are a couple of quaint stores to check out and some drop dead scrummy ice cream concoctions as well. ... more

... Personally I found these great as ensuring the kids behaved o the visit otherwise they were told they would not get one but would have to watch me eat the largest one on the menu. Built at the times of the crusades the castle fluctuated between Fren...more

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Castelnaud Castle: The French bitch slap Warwick Castle (1241 words)
by - written on 13/10/07 (Very useful, 187 readings)
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The Chateau de Castelnaud is located in the small town of Castelnaud and rises up above the tight cobbled streets to look over the slowly meandering River Dordogne and a beautiful lush green landscape stretching as far as the eye can see off to the distant hills of the Dordogne region of France. Earlier in the week we had viewed it while canoeing down the Dordogne and decided that it was definitely worth a visit. We were based in Sarlat and so it was a really enjoyable and scenic thirty minute drive to get there although the last couple of kilometres certainly make you glad of power steering as you negotiate the steep and twisting roads leading to the chateau entrance, ... Read the complete review