Château de Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

The castle once encompassed the whole village; in the fifteenth century, the village broke away and the keep alone took the name château. 26 metres high, it bears witness to the important military role once played by the town. Built in the tenth century, it was reinforced by a second tower in the twelfth, then reinforced again in the fifteenth by Prince Grimaldi, then owner. But it was taken, burned and sacked in 1597 and 1747. It was then left abandoned, then restored in the 1930s by a British patron. The stone access bridge replaced in the fifteenth century the original drawbridge. You first visit the castle's great hall, then the guardroom, the food store, the prisons. An 80 m³ cistern, cut in the rock, was supplied by rainwater. On the second floor, a small guardroom, the archers' dormitory. On the third floor, the lord's dwelling, the noble floor of the castle: bedroom, kitchen with olive-wood hood and bread oven, dining room. On the fourth floor, an artillery platform, from where you discover a superb panorama over the village, Cap Martin and the Principality of Monaco.

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