Château de Clermont

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Le château en bref

The Château de Clermont, also known as the Château de Saint-Geoire, stands in Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine, in the Isère department. It is associated with the House of Clermont, later Clermont-Tonnerre, an old noble family from the Dauphiné. According to the commune, a first fortress is said to have been built before 1080 by Siboud de Clermont at the request of the Bishop of Vienne. In the fifteenth century, the family transformed it into a residence in the Italianate palace style. Damaged during the Wars of Religion, then left in ruins after the Revolution, the château was bought in 1846 by Alexandre Michal-Ladichère, who undertook a neo-Renaissance reconstruction around 1880. It retains a tower, remains of the original chapel and a stained-glass window. After the Second World War, it served as a children's holiday camp until 1995, and it was then purchased again in 2021. Today it is a privately owned property.