Castles in the Atlantic Pyrenees

Château fort
64130 Mauléon Licharre

Mauléon Castle, known as the "old castle", is a medieval castle located in Mauléon-Licharre, New Aquitaine, listed as a historical monument since 1925. Built in the 11th century, it dominates the city from a pentagonal hill.

Château de style Renaissance
64130 Mauléon-Licharre

Maÿtie Castle, built in Mauléon-Licharre at the end of the 16th and 17th centuries, is a Renaissance jewel of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, classified as a historical monument for its facades and unique naval structure.

Château
64100 Bayonne

Marracq Castle, built at the beginning of the eighteenth century in Bayonne, is an ancient imperial palace today in ruins, classified as a historical monument since 1907.

Château
64300 Sault-de-Navailles

Sault Castle, a medieval fortress of the 12th-XIVth centuries in Sault-de-Navailles (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), was a strategic point between Aquitaine and Béarn. Today, only remains remain after the collapse of its tower in 2021.

Château
64430 Saint-Etienne-de-Baïgorry

The Château d'Etchaux, built in the 16th century in Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry, New Aquitaine, is a former vicomtal seat combining medieval architecture and Renaissance, classified as a historical monument since 1989.

Château de plaisance
64210 Bidart

The castle of Ilbarritz, built between 1895 and 1897 in Bidart (New Aquitaine), is an eclectic modern castle designed to house a monumental organ, surrounded by a park today partially disappeared.

Château
64200 Arcangues

Arcangues Castle, built at the beginning of the 20th century in Arcangues (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), is a neoclassical building inscribed with historical monuments, rebuilt on the bases of an ancient 17th century castle.

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
64520 Bidache

The castle of Bidache, located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, is a historical vestige of the sixteenth–XIXth centuries, former seat of the sovereign principality of Bidache. Ranked a Historic Monument, it dominates the Bidouze Valley and retains Renaissance and Louis XIII elements, despite two major fires (1523, 1796).