Château de Saint-Ferriol

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Le château en bref

Nestled in the Pays de Sault near Puivert, the Château de Saint-Ferriol is a fortified manor house of the late Renaissance, built around 1570 by the lords of Plaigne on a site mentioned as early as the 12th century. Damaged during the Wars of Religion, in which François de Plaigne was killed in 1586, it was restructured around 1600 in a spirit both residential and defensive, with corner bastions pierced with gun loops and wide stone-mullioned windows replacing the medieval openings. Passing by marriage to the du Vivier and then the d'Esperonnes families until the Revolution, it was afterwards partly dismantled before being acquired and restored by its current owners, who have worked since 1999 to return it to its early 17th-century state.