Château de Sédières

En un regard

Le château en bref

Founded in the 14th century by Jean Boutier, the Château de Sédières in Clergoux underwent major Renaissance alterations between 1535 and 1569 under Dominique de Sédières, who had the moats filled in to make way for a terrace. It passed to the Lentillac family, who created a French-style garden there in the late 17th century, then to Gabriel Delessert (1848) and General Adolphe de Chanal (1861), who carried out a large-scale restoration in 1862, probably directed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. The estate housed an orphanage from 1882 to 1904, then served as a German prisoner-of-war camp during the First World War. Bought in 1965 by the Corrèze departmental council, it has hosted the Sédières festival (concerts, performances, exhibitions) since 1974, on an estate of 130 hectares of forests, ponds and running water.