Château de Parthenay

The first human occupation of the castle site at Parthenay, in the Deux-Sèvres, goes back no further than the 11th century, marked by two storage pits about 1.20 m deep cut into the rock. The castle was built in the early 13th century, with fairly small towers, each with a round or square room and three arrow slits, and a wall with bar holes later incorporated into the entrance gate.

Around the middle of the 14th century the whole site was built up, and the two small original towers were enclosed in larger structures. The almost triangular curtain wall was then flanked by nine towers, two of which formed the entrance gate to the south-east. The crossing over the ditch was made of wood.

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