Château de Pechrodil

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The Château de Pechrodil is located in the commune of Varen, in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne. From the twelfth century until at least the beginning of the nineteenth century, the seigneury of Pech-Rodil was without interruption the seat of the Gros de Perrodil family, descended from knights of Saint-Antonin and Najac, whose fiefs and possessions extended between Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val and Najac, and beyond them to Toulzanes, mainly on the right bank of the Aveyron and the Viaur. Mentioned since the earliest times as a castle, the fortified residence of the lords of Pechrodil, situated on the riverbank at the heart of these lands, was well equipped with defensive works: towers, enclosure walls, a lower courtyard, moats, and a drawbridge. From the beginning of the seventeenth century, alterations transformed it, in the taste of the period, into an elegant family residence. Some remnants of the ancient dwelling survive.