Puymartin

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Shortened history of the castle:

The castle was first built in the thirteenth century and it has undergone many conquests and assaults, as indeed most of the castles of Perigord during the Hundred Years War. In 1357 only stodd a ruin that no one could use.

Rebuilt in the fifteenth century after the Hundred Years War by Radulphe Saint-Clar, this time, it is the religious wars that damaged it.

The last important restoration took place in the nineteenth century by the Marquis of Marc Roffignac Carbonnier Marzac dramatically changed the look of the castle and gave the beautiful appearance we see today.

In the sixteenth century, Teresa of Saint-Clar, surprised by her husband John of St. Clar in the arms of her lover, was imprisoned for fifteen years in a narrow room. Teresa received her food through a small hatch in the ceiling breakthrough, still visible. Jean de Saint-Clar went even further in his madness because when his wife died in that room, he refused to bury her correctly in a cemetery but he did in the walls of the castle, saying that a woman of her sort did not deserve a tomb. It goes without saying that the lover had been executed by being hanged from a tree that Therese could see from her only window. The fact is that since that time, it was reported that a beautiful young woman dressed in white, soft and evanescent, appeared to the inhabitants of Puymartin the night: the White Lady.

Opening times and additional information:

From April to June and September : 10am to 12am and 2pm to 6pm
July : 10am to 12am and 2pm to 6.30pm
August : 10am to 6.30pm
October to 11th of November : 2pm to 5.30pm and morning on reservation

Fees:
Adults - 7 Euros
Groups (from 20 to 40 adults) - 5 Euros
Students - 5 Euros
Under 6 - FREE
6 to 12 years old - 3,50 Euros
13 to 18 years old - 5 Euros