Château de Taurines

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Le château en bref

The Château de Taurines, in the rural village of the same name in the commune of Centrès, dates from the 13th–14th centuries. Having fallen into ruin, it was taken in hand from 1981 onwards by a volunteer association working with the Compagnons du Devoir, who carried out remarkable restoration work (a spiral staircase with a hollow newel, a hanging keystone, a monumental doorway, fireplaces). Since 1985, the château has hosted contemporary art exhibitions every summer, inviting artists to engage with the site itself as an artistic medium (Claude Clarbous, Victoria Klotz, Nicolas Primat, Delphine Gigoux-Martin, among others). It also offers educational programmes for schools, group visits and a summer music festival, originally funded by the volunteers themselves and now supported by institutional and private partnerships.