France · 12th century
The Château de Castelbouc is the ruin of a rock castle in the French municipality of Sainte-Enimie in the département of Lozère in the Occitanie region. It lies in the small village of Castelbouc belonging to it in the Gorges du Tarn and, by its position on an exposed rock, towers above both the settlement and the river passing by.
Machine-translated from “Burg Castelbouc” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château de Castelbouc ranks #4,406 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #361 of the 787 mapped in France. Founded c. 1150, it is older than 80% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 763 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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