Château d'Orion

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Le château en bref

Situated in the heart of the village of Orion, in Béarn (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), the Château d'Orion is a Béarnais manor house built in the seventeenth century on the site of the village's former lay abbey, a vassal fief of the Viscounty of Béarn. Enlarged over the centuries, it is surrounded by an estate of some thirty hectares. Owned by the Casamayor family until the Revolution, it then passed to the Larrouy family, merchants who had grown rich in the trade in Bayonne ham. It was later inherited by the surgeon Paul Reclus, brother of the geographer Élisée Reclus. In the twentieth century it belonged to the Labbé family, before being sold in 2003 to the Premauer family, who renovated it and turned it into a guest house and a cultural venue hosting concerts, exhibitions and seminars. The château appears in the novel Par les routes by Sylvain Prudhomme (Prix Femina 2019).