Château de Lestaubière

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château de Lestaubière stands in Douville, in the Périgord Pourpre, a few hundred metres from the old château of the same estate. Built in the 19th century for the Canesie family, it adopts a restrained neoclassical style: a rectangular main building flanked by towers on one side and pavilions on the other, extended to the north by outbuildings whose turrets form a belvedere. The estate retains a remarkable park planted with foreign tree species, inherited from the 19th-century taste for exotic landscape gardens. In the 1980s, the château made local headlines when a wealthy family from the Far East considered buying it in order to dismantle it stone by stone and rebuild it in Japan; the outcry caused by this project contributed to its abandonment. A private property, it is not open to visitors, but according to some tourist sources it has occasionally welcomed guests as a bed and breakfast (chambres d'hôtes).