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Le château en bref
The castle of Attalens, in the Fribourg Veveyse region, was built at the end of the 12th or the beginning of the 13th century, when the village was dependent on the lords of Oron. In 1523 it was sold to the Chapter of Lausanne; Charles de Challant became lord of Attalens in 1531. Fribourg occupied Attalens in 1536, bought back the lordship in 1556, resold it in 1558, then acquired it permanently in 1615. It made the estate a bailiwick, merged with that of Bossonnens in 1618. The State transferred the castle to the commune in 1804. The parish bought it in 1882 to house a hospice, later a medico-social institution. It has been privately owned since 1968.