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Château Vauclair, La Rochelle

Vauclair Castle

La Rochelle

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No visits on recordNo opening hours or ticketing found

Where
La Rochelle

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Open within 20 km

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Château Vauclair stands in La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime), in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. No visits are on record for this building.

Little remains to be seen of Vauclair castle, built in the late twelfth century by Henry II of England to guard La Rochelle's early harbour. Dismantled after the 1372 siege and finally collapsed in the sixteenth century, its foundations resurfaced in 1995 during the digging of an underground car park beneath today's place de Verdun. This is a place for history rather than architecture, a way to locate a vanished stronghold rather than admire standing walls.

Written from Vauclair Castle

Where this château is

La Rochelle · Charente-Maritime · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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Address

La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime

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Heritage status
Protection status unknown
Mérimée record IA17000048

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The most visited in this department — Charente-Maritime