Château de La Verdière, Medieval fortress in La Verdière, France.

Château de La Verdière is a castle on the hilltop of La Verdière in the Var, built from the 10th century and enlarged until the 18th. Its pale ochre walls, rows of tall narrow windows with red shutters and terracotta-tiled roofs rise above the village, with a lower cylindrical tower with a conical roof on one side. Inside, several thousand square metres of Provençal gypsum plasterwork decorate the salons and state rooms.

The fortress was founded around 980 by the Castellane family and once guarded the trade route from Arles toward the Alpine regions. It came under the control of the Forbin counts in 1613, who later expanded it with more comfortable living spaces.

The village church, oriented north-south, is attached to the castle's western wing; it replaced the original castle chapel and received a bell tower in the 15th century. The Forbin added a tribune above one of its chapels so the lord could attend services out of sight. The church has belonged to the village for seven centuries.

The castle has been closed to the public since 2023, so it cannot be visited inside; the building and its park have been classified as monuments historiques since 1986. The structure rises above the village of La Verdière, and the church of the village stands against its western wing. From the heights, the view reaches the Mont Ventoux and the Luberon to the west.

In 1851, eight hundred infantrymen and artillerymen opposed to the coup d'état were billeted inside the castle walls on the orders of a colonel. The episode is one of the events the village long remembered, alongside the Revolutionary pillaging that stripped the building of its doors, windows and roof.