Château de Villemartin

Villemartin Castle

Gaja-et-Villedieu

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Where: Gaja-et-Villedieu

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Château de Villemartin stands in Gaja-et-Villedieu (Aude), in the Occitanie region of France. The building is listed as a historic monument (dating recorded in the Mérimée database: second quarter of the 14th century). The building is privately owned and no visits are on record.

At Gaja-et-Villedieu, in the Aude department, the Villemartin estate holds a Catalan Gothic cloister that did not originate there: its stones come from the Grands Carmes convent in Perpignan, built in the second quarter of the 14th century and later destroyed in the early 19th century. Around 1830, Baron Alexandre Guiraud had the columns and carved capitals moved to his property and reassembled in a layout different from the original. The carvings include no sacred imagery, instead showing plant motifs, real and fantastical animals, and hunting scenes, a rare testimony to this medieval art.

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