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Le château en bref
The Château de Saint-Beauzély, dating back to the 12th century and remodelled at the end of the 16th century, consists of two wings whose walls are crowned with machicolations and roofed with slate, arranged around a square central tower. Its notable features include two doorways on the south and east sides with triangular pediments, a grand staircase serving the vaulted rooms of the ground floor and three upper floors, and mullioned windows; the former northern ramparts now support the church bell tower. First mentioned in 1189, it passed through the du Lévézou, de Combret, d'Arpajon, de Castelpers and de Tauriac families, then to the Grégoire des Gardies family (1629–1759, erected into a marquisate in 1759). Sold as national property (bien national) during the Revolution, it was acquired in 1835 by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche and then transferred to the commune in 1960. Today it houses the museum of stone trades and rural life, open from 1 April to 15 October; its interior decoration has been listed (inscrit) as a historic monument since 1998.