List of castles in Picardy
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This list of castles in Picardy is a list of medieval castles or château forts in the region in northern France.
Links in italics are links to articles in the French Wikipedia.
| Name |
Date |
Condition |
Image | Ownership / Access |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Château de Château-Thierry | 9–17th century | Ruins | |||
| Château de Coucy | c.1220 | Ruins | Keep was 180 ft (55 m) high, in 1917 the German army dynamited the keep and the four corner towers using 28 tons of explosives. | ||
| Château de Fère-en-Tardenois | 13th century | Ruins | |||
| Château de La Ferté-Milon | Ruins | ||||
| Château de Guise | 10–16th century | Ruins | Ville de Guise | ||
| Donjon de Septmonts | 14th century | Substantially intact | Commune |
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| Name |
Date |
Condition |
Image | Ownership / Access |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donjon de Clermont | 11–13th century | Ruins | |||
| Château de Montataire | 12–15th century | ||||
| Château de Pierrefonds | c.1393–1407 | Reconstructed | Imaginatively reconstructed by Viollet-le-Duc 1857–85, on the instruction of Napoleon III of France.[1] | ||
| Château de Verneuil-en-Halatte | Ruins | Royal castle of Henri IV of France. | |||
| Château de Vez | 13–14th century | Substantially intact |