Travel Guide Le Châtenet-En-Dognon

A small hill dominating the village of Dognon and the valley of Taurion is in reality a "feudal motte", a raised seat of a fortified castle constructed of granite and wood around the year 1000. This place gave part of its name to the commune (Dognon comes from "donjon" (donhon en Occitan).At the Dognon, a excavation site has enabled us to update a fortified set whose construction has been carried out in several stages: the late th-century setting of a motte castle, from the th to the th of a stone building, from th to th building of a large stone castle. There is nothing left of that. Note the bridge of Dognon built in 1930 in reinforced concrete, the Bow-string type (according to the technique of the bow arch).