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RE: The Chateau de Bramevaque - Rubidos Ruin Reviews

in Pinmapple3 years ago

According to Jackie Mansas who comments on the bottom of this article (he did his Doctorate thesis on this castle and the whole area), this never belonged to the Count of Comminges but was an administrative decision of the Barousse elected officials back in 1993 to say it did in order to attract tourists (he was at that meeting). https://paratge.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/bramevaque/
I'm totally bilingual English French and spent half of my life in the South of France.
It's all very complicated and explained in his blog here. It was a féodale military castle and they are still unsure of the exact owners at that time. But the legends are great!
http://capsbourrutdespyrenees.over-blog.com/2021/05/les-deux-bramevaque-des-pyrenees-2.html

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Thanks for the info! I guess the Mairie in this case wasn't the best source of information. I guess seeing the size of the village I'm not surprised they decided to spice the story up a bit to attract visitors.

The legends are alot of fun tho.

I'm reading the articles now, thanks again.