Château de Pau has no named architect in the article, and the page has no infobox. It was founded in the Middle Ages. Gaston IV of Béarn built three towers in the 12th century, and Gaston Fébus reinforced the defenses and added a brick tower in the 14th century. Louis-Philippe had it restored as a royal residence.
The article calls it a typical fortified castle later altered in the Renaissance into a pleasure residence, with neo-Renaissance and neo-Gothic objects added in the restoration. Fébus's brick tower is 108 feet (33 m) high. A stockade of piles, or pau, gave the city its name.
The court of Navarre moved in during 1512, and Henry IV was born there on December 13, 1553. It was classified as a historic monument in 1840 and held the emir Abd El-Kader in 1848. It is now a national museum with a tapestry collection and over 100,000 visitors a year. The article gives no hours.
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