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Fourques Castle

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Location: Fourques, Nimes, Occitania, France

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1. Chapelle de Saujan Rest Area – Via Rhona resting place loop from Fourques

26.7km

01:31

30m

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Fourques Castle – The Petit Rhône loop from Vitier

42.5km

02:27

50m

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Streets of Arles – Port of Bellegarde loop from Fourques

29.1km

01:52

50m

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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December 24, 2016

Good example of a fortified medieval four-sided farmer's castle. The city website has a few more details:
This quadrilateral with formerly crenellated curtain walls, flanked by four corner towers, is a remarkable and very well preserved example of medieval civil and military architecture. The surrounding walls, as they appear to us today, appear to date from the 12th century. The tower covers date from the beginning of the 17th century. The battlements were dismantled during the revolution. The courtyard retains a remarkable basket-handle well.
In 1070 Raymond IV of St Gilles, Count of Toulouse, took the side of Aicard, archbishop of Arles, and returned to him “the third part of the castle of Fourques and half of that of Albaron”
In 1181, the building was besieged by Alphonse of Aragon, then at war with Raymond of Toulouse who held Fourques and his castle in fief of the Archbishop of Arles.
In 1215, Simon de Montfort paid liege homage to Archbishop Michel de Moriès, and took the whole of Terre d'Argence (including Beaucaire and Fourques) into fiefdom.
In 1229, after the Treaty of Meaux, Terre d’Argence joined the royal domain.
In 1470, under the reign of Louis
In 1562, (First War of Religion) The “religionists” (Protestants) seized the castle in May, they did not keep it long but had time to degrade and ruin the church of the place which was not rebuilt that towards the end of the century. On June 2, Catholic troops from Provence crossed the Rhône at Tarascon and captured the castle of Fourques, driving out the Protestants on July 10. »
From the 17th century to the Revolution, the castle was acquired successively by the sieur de Créquy, whose heir was the constable of Lesdiguières, then by Mr. de Moynier, general treasurer of France, finally by Mr. de Bon, first president of the Court of Auditors of Montpellier.
In 1810, Henriette Suzanne de Boissy d'Anglas, (daughter of the Conventional Deputy François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas) bought the castle and had it restored under the direction of Auguste Véran, Arlesian architect of historical monuments.
Today, his heirs still own it. fourques.com/chateau-de-fourques

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Martin

September 21, 2017

Unfortunately, seen only from the open, is great, definitely worth a closer look

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Location: Fourques, Nimes, Occitania, France

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1. Chapelle de Saujan Rest Area – Via Rhona resting place loop from Fourques

2. Fourques Castle – The Petit Rhône loop from Vitier

3. Streets of Arles – Port of Bellegarde loop from Fourques

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