France · Restored
Château de Cordès
Château de Cordès is a privately owned castle in Orcival, Puy-de-Dôme, France, listed as a monument historique and open to the public. The site includes formal and topiary gardens listed as a Remarkable Garden of France. The present château preserves medieval masonry with later residential rebuilding and 17th–18th century garden layouts.
Its prime
1700
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1700
What Château de Cordès looked like in its prime.
A compact stone château built of dark, rough local volcanic masonry with two round drum towers flanking a taller rectangular central tower; steep, slate-covered conical and pyramidal roofs punctuate the silhouette. The frontage opens onto a clipped topiary parterre with gravel paths and a small formal basin, trimmed hornbeam alleys approach the house, and the masonry shows regular small windows and a pronounced vertical gate/tower element; condition at prime: complete and occupied.
Its story
The story of Château de Cordès.
The original castle at Cordès, in the commune of Orcival in the Puy-de-Dôme, dates from 1268, when it belonged to Guillaume de Chalus. His family occupied the castle for nearly four hundred years, and the present château still preserves medieval masonry beneath the later residential rebuilding. In 1659 the Chalus sold it to Emmanuel d'Allègre.
Emmanuel's son Yves de Tourzel, the Marquis d'Allègre, who became a marshal of France in 1724, rebuilt the castle and transformed it into a residence, and in 1695 commissioned the workshop of Le Nôtre to lay out the garden. Privately owned and open to the public, the château is classified as a historic monument, and its formal and topiary gardens are listed among the Remarkable Gardens of France.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1700.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Château de Cordès — including 3 interiors: interior: chapel with carrara altarpiece, interior: sculptured tomb of yves ii, interior: living room with 18th-century plasterwork. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more rooms, more angles, and more of the place to stand in.
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Clans who held Château de Cordès.
The families that held Château de Cordès for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Chalus
Held by the Chalus family for nearly four hundred years from 1268, until sold in 1659.
Allègre
Bought by Emmanuel d'Allègre in 1659; his son Yves de Tourzel, Marquis d'Allègre, rebuilt it as a residence.
