Château de Chabanoles

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Le château en bref

Château de Chabanoles, in Retournac (Haute-Loire), is a fortified manor house (maison forte) of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with an almost square main building flanked by two round towers to the north and south; the entrance doorway, decorated with religious monograms, probably dates from the early seventeenth century. The site is documented from 1190; it passed to the seigneurs de Chabanolles (1309–1534), then to the Terrasse family (1534–1653), and then to the Jourda de Vaux family, who remodelled it from 1650 onwards (a spiral staircase was replaced by a straight staircase). Privately owned, and protected as a monument historique.