Château de Beaufort

The Château de Beaufort is a ruined castle located along the upper reaches of the river Loire in France. It is near the village of Goudet in the département of Haute-Loire, in the Auvergne region. It was built in the 13th century and modified in the 15th and 16th centuries. Perched on a rocky headland overhanging the granitic rocks of the Margeride, the fortress is today a ruined shell.

Robert Louis Stevenson stopped here on his trip documented in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879).

"In this pleasant humour I came down the hill to where Goudet stands in a green end of a valley, with Château Beaufort opposite upon a rocky steep, and the stream, as clear as crystal, lying in a deep pool between them."

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Château de Beaufortは、アトラスの城の知名度ランキングで世界2,668位（全3,734件中）、フランスの276件では204位にランクされています。約1250年に創建され、アトラスの年代判明済みの城の73%より古い城です（13世紀に創建されたアトラス収録の397件のひとつ）。フランスが他とどう比べられるかは、城の統計をご覧ください。

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