France · 13th century
Hardelot Castle is a fortified castle situated in the commune of Condette in the Pas-de-Calais (Hauts-de-France region), in France. The present castle is a manor house completed in the middle of the 19th century, on foundations dating from 1222. It has the form of a polygon with nine towers, surrounded by two wide concentric ditches and set on a hill overlooking the marshes and the lac des miroirs. It is close to the seaside resort of Hardelot-Plage, to which it gave its name.
Today it houses the Centre culturel de l'Entente cordiale, devoted to relations between the French and the English, and each summer it hosts the Midsummer Festival. It lies at the centre of the regional nature reserve of the Condette marsh.
Machine-translated from “Château d'Hardelot” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hardelot Castle ranks #3,274 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #254 of the 793 mapped in France. Founded 1222, it is older than 73% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 1080 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 3,509 times in the last 60 days, more than 81% of the atlas. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Eastbourne, 94 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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