Château de Gourdon

The Château de Gourdon was built in three stages. First step in the twelfth century on the foundations of the fortress of the ninth, when the Counts of Provence held their border county of Ventimiglia and the County of Provence.

They built a fortress on the cliff of Gourdon which was from originally a fortified place. It is currently the general plan with three round towers at the corners and the big wall that looks north towards the road of Pre du Lac.

The rest of the Château de Gourdon was built in the seventeenth, arcades, the first floor in 1610 and the second in 1653.