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Château Royal de Collioure today

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Château Royal de Collioure

The Château Royal de Collioure is a layered fortified royal castle on the shore at Collioure in southern France, formed by successive medieval and early-modern building phases. It was enlarged and adapted for artillery in the 16th–17th centuries and later consolidated under Vauban; today it is a restored historic monument and tourist site.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

Its prime

1680

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1680

The shape it held in its prime.

A compact, multi-level coastal fortress of warm grey-beige masonry rising directly from a rocky sea-breakwater, composed of a tall square stone keep set behind lower stepped curtain walls and broad angular artillery bastions. Behind the ramparts sit contiguous two-storey residential ranges with red-tiled roofs and small windows; low parapets, scattered sentry turrets and a prominent flagstaff mark the upper terrace. The whole complex terraces up from the quay toward green hills inland.

Step inside

5 places to explore in 1680.

The record describes 5 distinct spots at Château Royal de Collioure — including 1 interior: inner residential courtyard. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Harbour approach (seaward view)Seaward bastions and curtain wallMain keep (donjon) exteriorInner residential courtyardView toward Fort Saint-Elme

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See Château Royal de Collioure with the fires lit.

The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1680 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.

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