Château du Peyruzel

En un regard

Le château en bref

In Daglan, in the heart of the Périgord Noir, the Château du Peyruzel — lo Castel del Pruzel in Occitan — has overlooked from its spur the road running along the Céou between Domme and Gramat, a position contested as early as the Hundred Years' War. Its Greek-cross plan preserves, on one of its wings, a window dated to the 13th century, a remnant of an earlier construction. The building went through the Wars of Religion amid turmoil: held by the Leaguer Marc de Cugnac, it was set ablaze in 1589 by the Protestant troops of Geoffroy de Vivans, only the keep surviving. Bought by François de Mirandol in 1595, it remained in that family until the Revolution.