Château de Jupille

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The Château de la Grande Jupille, also known as the Château de Jupille, is a 19th-century-style manor house located at the locality of La Grande Jupille, in the commune of Saint-Pierre-le-Bost, in the Creuse. It combines a main building to the west (about 20 × 10 m), an adjoining wing (about 20 × 7 m) and a square end tower (about 5 × 5 m), with a south façade pierced by three French-style windows and some ten rows of windows per level. A flat terrace supported by a retaining wall overlooks the surrounding farm outbuildings. The place name may derive from the Celtic term "iuppo" (juniper) — a hypothesis considered doubtful given the non-calcareous nature of the soils — or from Roman villas dedicated to the god Jupiter.