Here are a couple of shots of another château on the Loire less than half an hour's drive from Castelnau and Beynac. It's called the château de Monfort, and the first castle on this site was built starting in the 11th or 12th century... and torn down the the 13th. It was torn down and rebuilt st least three times during the Hundred Year's war between the English and the French in the 1300s and 1400s, if I can believe what I read. Here's a link to the Montford web site, in English and with photos of many other châteaux.
What an amazing sight it must have been for a person walking or riding across the lands that these castles stood upon, when they came up on them.
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