Château de la Jarthe

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The Château de la Jarthe is a noble manor (repaire noble) located about one kilometre west of Coursac, some ten kilometres south-west of Périgueux. Its origins are attributed to the 12th century, with rebuilding campaigns from the 14th to the 16th century. The complex is arranged around a square curtain wall with a wall-walk, an enclosed courtyard, a Renaissance wing with mullioned windows opening onto the gardens, and a round 15th-century stair tower, now lacking its crowning. A small barrel-vaulted chapel, whose choir is covered by a vault with six radiating ribs, a farm building with a hexagonal tower and a dovecote standing on eight columns complete the site. Listed as a historic monument (inscrit monument historique) in 1948 (château, chapel and dovecote), it is privately owned. Bought in 2020 and restored, the estate of about 130 hectares is now run as a reception venue: weddings, seminars, accommodation in the château and the former sheepfold, with a glass-roofed orangery.