Boissezon Castle

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Le château en bref

Boissezon Castle is a former fortified castle located in Murat-sur-Vèbre, in the Tarn department (France). Situated in the hamlet of Boissezon de Masviel, only one ruined but preserved tower remains today. It was the seigneurial castle of the Ancien Régime community of Boissezon de Matviel, which, together with its four parishes (Murat, Boissezon, La Bessière and Canac), became the commune of Murat, later Murat-sur-Vèbre. The promontory on which it was built, within a bend of the Rieu-Pourquié stream, was gradually quarried to supply a lime kiln used extensively for liming agricultural meadows in the 19th century. Its ruins were used to build the departmental road that replaced, along the mountainside, the historic route that had remained on the heights.