Château de Castellas

Castellas Castle

Dourgne

Access

No visits on recordNo opening hours or ticketing found

Where: Dourgne

To make a day of it

Open within 20 km

Sleep nearby

Château de Castellas stands in Dourgne (Tarn), in the Occitanie region of France. No visits are on record for this building.

The château de Castellas stood in the commune of Dourgne, in the Tarn department, above the Taurou valley. Founded around the 10th century by the Dourgne family, vassals of the Trencavel, it was captured and destroyed by Simon de Montfort in 1212 during the crusade against the Cathars, whose cause the lords of Dourgne had embraced. After centuries of partial occupation and eventual abandonment, the site was later erased by quarry works in the 20th century, and no built remains survive today.

Written from Château de Castellas (Dourgne)

What to know

No visible structure remains on site, the last ruins having disappeared with 20th-century quarry works.
Only the name of a nearby cave, the grotte du Castelas, still recalls the former existence of the castle.
There are no opening hours, fees or visitor facilities, as there is no physical monument left to see.
The interest of the place is mainly historical, tied to the Albigensian Crusade and its capture in 1212.