News: At the foot of Cognac Castle (Charente)

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News: At the foot of Cognac Castle (Charente)

As part of the renovation of the site of the Richonne, historical property of the company JAS Hennessy, the Inrap digs an area of 2300 m2 at the foot of the castle of Cognac. To the first forms of habitat identified from the 11th century below the castle succeeds a neighborhood protected from the 13th century by a enclosure, then restructurings at the end of the Middle Ages, which prefigure the reorganization of the spaces at the end of the 17th…