Château de Laplanque
A working family estate, since 1350.
A family story
The Château de Laplanque was built around 1350 and has been carried by the Roques-Rogery family for nearly seven centuries — through wars, the French Revolution, and the quiet centuries between. During the Second World War, more than six hundred members of the French Resistance found shelter here.
Hunting has been part of the estate's life from the earliest days. Today the château welcomes a small number of guests each season — never a crowd, never a hotel. You stay where the family stays. You eat at the family table. The hunt happens on the family land.
It is, perhaps, one of the rare French castles where the word "home" still applies.
You feel, here, that the estate has hosted you — not the other way round.
Rooms with a longer memory than ours
Ensuite bedrooms, a library that has kept its secrets for generations, dining rooms scaled for long evenings, and the historic Charmille — a green tunnel of hornbeam where the family has wandered for centuries.
The land begins where the courtyard ends.— The Land
Forest, ridge, and river
Beyond the courtyard, the estate opens onto a Valley shaped by oak and chestnut woods, limestone outcrops, narrow rivers, and steep, rocky terrain that holds some of the largest red stag, mouflon and fallow deer trophies in Europe. Stalking and high-seat hunts are the rule. Driven hunts and bespoke days are arranged on request.
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Hunting at Laplanque is by invitation, by enquiry.
Tell us what you have in mind. We will reply personally — usually within twenty-four hours.
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