General & History

Chateau Rousse is set in eight hectares of arcadian grounds and consists of three adjacent buildings of historical significance, all restored to elegant and luxurious comfort, with a total of seventeen bedrooms for a maximum of thirty four guests.

Facilities include a steam room and two swimming pools, a snooker table, a trampoline and a small domestic menagerie of donkeys, goats and deer...

Begun back in the twelfth century, the castle was largely constructed in the seventeenth. The fortified tower was begun around 1150 by allies of the Duchy of Aquitaine who took the side of Richard the Lionheart and his French wife Eleanor against King Louis VII of France.

Following the end of the protracted and bloody religious wars ending in 1648, the remaining buildings of the chateau were completed at the end of the century.