Château de Sauveterre

En un regard

Le château en bref

Built on a spur overlooking a bend of the Thoré by some twenty metres, the Château de Sauveterre succeeded an earlier castrum. It was in ruins by the mid-15th century, after the Hundred Years' War and the plague, when it was acquired in 1452 by the d'Auxilhon family, who had it rebuilt from 1494. It suffered the violence of the Wars of Religion (an attack in 1588, sacking by the Huguenots in 1622) before being restored in 1667. At the beginning of the 19th century, the architect Charles Bernard (or Charles de Millau, according to some sources) remodelled the main residential block and decorated the salons. The rectangular corps de logis is flanked by two large round corner towers; the west tower retains French-style gun loops from the late 15th century. The château has been listed as a monument historique since 31 July 2002 and still belongs to the d'Auxilhon family, according to available information.