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The Château de la Varette is a sixteenth-century fortified manor house located in Dore-l'Église (Puy-de-Dôme), about 500 m south-west of the village centre, towards La Chaise-Dieu. Around 1600, Amable de Myet was lord of the estate; in 1639 his daughter Madeleine passed it on by marriage to Louis de la Rochénégly; Jean-Baptiste de Vallard was living there in 1674. The fief was divided and sold in 1787. The remains of a quadrangular enceinte with cylindrical corner towers survive: one tower at the corner of a two-storey residential block, and another, heavily eroded, pierced by a gun loop. Privately owned; not open to visitors.