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Le château en bref
The Château de Pesteils stands on a rocky promontory overlooking the village of Polminhac and the Cère valley in the Cantal. Its 40-metre-high keep, dating from the 14th–15th centuries, goes back to the beginning of the Hundred Years' War. Enlarged in the 17th century and then remodelled in the Neo-Gothic taste in the 19th century by Anatole and Gabriel de Miramon with the architect Émile Lemaigre, it retains 15th-century frescoes restored in 2008 (Sotheby's prize) and 17th-century painted ceilings with mythological subjects. Open to the public since 1956, it features reconstructed scenes with wax figures from the Musée Grévin.