The Mareuil castle (Fr. Château de Mareuil) is a French castle located in the town of Mareuil-sur-Belle in the Dordogne department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
It is a fortified plain.
Seat of one of the four baronies of Périgord (with Beynac, Biron and Bourdeilles), the current castle follows another oldest victim of the fighting of the Hundred Years War. Mareuil was rebuilt at the beginning of the 15th century by Geoffroy de Mareuil, who turned it into a flamboyant Gothic-style pleasure residence.
Burned down during the Wars of religion, it was abandoned a century and a half later. After several sales, it was acquired in the 17th century by Isabelle de Beauville who bequeathed it to her daughter Jeanne-Françoise, wife of Daniel de Talleyrand-Périgord. Their descendants undertook the restoration of the castle, but rarely lived there, and abandoned it during the Revolution.
In 1883, Mareuil was included in the bequest made by Élie-Roger-Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince of Chalais, to the Chalais Hospital, which converted it into a farm. In 1963, the castle was bought, restored, refurnished and once again inhabited by the Dukes of Montebello, “Princes of Sievers”.
It houses a museum dedicated to Marshal Lannes and can be visited by appointment.
The Château de Mareuil was listed as a historic monument in 1862.
Address: 27 Rue du Château, 24340 Mareuil, France
Opens at 10:00 AM
Monday
10AM–1PM
2–6PM
Tuesday
10AM–1PM
2–6PM
Wednesday
10AM–1PM
2–6PM
Thursday
10AM–1PM
2–6PM
Friday
10AM–1PM
2–6PM
Saturday
10AM–1PM
2–6PM
Sunday
2–6PM
GPS coordinates: 45° 27′ 14″ N, 0° 27′ 04″ E
Located 39 min (38.0 km) via D939 from Angoulême
