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Le château en bref
The Castelsoubro (“high castle” or “castel sobran”), at Montmurat in the Cantal department, was an immense castle built on a height overlooking the valleys of the Lot and the Célé, with a view, on clear days, of the Auvergne volcanoes. The seigneury, which was held from the viscounty of Carlat, earned its lords excommunication by Pope Urban II in 1095 for having seized Church property. Distinct from a low castle that belonged to the seigneury of Sybille de Panat in the 13th century, the Castelsoubro was looted during the French Revolution and its dismantling was completed in the 19th century. All that remains today is a 34-metre-deep well and underground passages.