Château de la Punta, Protected castle in Alata, France.

Château de la Punta is a three-storey stone building at Alata, about 600 m up, with a pale grey and beige facade: round-arched ground-floor openings, a central double staircase to a balustraded entrance, and two upper storeys of flat columns framing tall windows. Its facades differ, each reusing stones of the Tuileries Palace pavilions, so the house is a recreation rather than a copy.

The castle was built between 1883 and 1891 using stone salvaged from the Tuileries Palace in Paris after it burned in 1871. These materials from a historic Paris building were transported and incorporated into the Corsican structure.

The castle's name comes from the Pointe, the rocky spur at 600 metres where it stands. Its four facades differ, each reproducing a pavilion of the Tuileries, so the building illustrates the lost palace rather than copying it. A red marble plaque of 1891 records that Jérôme Pozzo di Borgo and his son Charles built it with Tuileries stones to keep a French memory in Corsica.

The castle is owned by the Collectivité de Corse, not privately, and has been under restoration since 2020, so it is not open to visitors. Reaching it required cutting a seven-kilometre road through the rock; the site lies at 600 metres and is exposed to all winds.

The 1978 fire that destroyed the roof and timber frame also killed a 19-year-old firefighter, Patrick Amico, whose vehicle was trapped by flames on the access road; a stele in Alata commemorates him. The roof stayed open for eighteen years, and the wooden frame was only replaced by a metal one in 1996.