Château de Servières

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Le château en bref

The Château de Servières, overlooking the gorges of the Glane at Servières-le-Château, was a medieval stronghold linked first to monks of Aurillac and then to the viscounts of Turenne. Sold to Louis XV in 1739, it passed two years later to the Noailles family, before being confiscated as national property during the Revolution and bought back by the clergy in 1816. It then served as a minor seminary until 1900, taking in up to 300 pupils under the direction of the priest Pierre Capitain, and became state property in 1905. Used as a detention camp for German prisoners during the First World War, it was ravaged by a fire in 1917 that left only charred walls, before being rebuilt and converted into a preventorium. The site now houses a specialised social care and residential institution, closed to the public.