Château de Touzon

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Le château en bref

The Thouzon priory-castle, on a hill in the Comtat Venaissin plain at Le Thor (Vaucluse), is a fortified monastic complex of some 1 600 m², of which survive a vaulted church (Sainte-Marie), a small chapel (Saint-Pierre), two towers, sections of walls and a cistern hewn out of the rock. The Benedictines of Saint-André held churches there from 1014; Count Raymond IV made it an allod in 1088; the Baron des Adrets occupied it in 1563. From 1696 it was a secular property, and it fell into serious disrepair. The church and the chapel have been listed as Monuments historiques since 1987. The Thouzon altarpiece (15th century) is held at the Louvre.