Château de Gurgy-la-Ville

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The Château de Gurgy-la-Ville, known as the 'château des hirondelles' (castle of the swallows), stands in the centre of the village of Gurgy-la-Ville (Côte-d'Or). The seigneury of Gurgy-le-Château is documented as early as 1106; it was sold in 1270 to the Bishop of Langres and then divided around 1400 between the Senailly and Dampierre families. Destroyed during the Franco-Burgundian conflict of 1472, the castle was rebuilt shortly afterwards by Jean de Senailly or his son, who in 1473 granted the inhabitants a fixed tallage (taille abonnée) in order to repopulate the place. Passing to the Legoux and then the Garnier families, it was sold in 1756 for 190,000 livres to Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre. Confiscated during the Revolution, it then had bourgeois and later farming owners, before being bought and restored from 2005 onwards by Jean-Philippe Guerra and his wife, whose work was rewarded with a regional heritage prize in 2014.