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Matilde Maini
September 7, 2023
Cycling
The castle occupies a barred spur site. The original building, from the 14th century, consists of a keep and an L-shaped dwelling, some walls of which retain walled niches. The whole was included in the 16th century in a second enclosure whose U-shaped plan closed on a dry ditch. The keep lost its last two floors during the Revolution. The castle was then transformed into an agricultural estate which declined with the phylloxera crisis. It then became a preventorium (treatment establishment for people suffering from tuberculosis) and then a detention center during the Second World War.
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