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The Château de Saint-Laurent stands in the commune of Châtel-de-Neuvre, in the Allier department, between the village and the River Allier, below the village's Romanesque church, one of the oldest in the department. The hill on which it stands has been occupied since Antiquity, as numerous archaeological remains attest, and the site may lie close to an ancient crossing of the Allier attributed to Julius Caesar. The building, in a style typical of the Bourbonnais, consists of a single main residential block flanked by a round tower on the river side and a square tower on the opposite side, as well as a large round tower that served as a dovecote. A private property not open to visitors, it can nevertheless be seen from the public road. The site is mentioned in Valéry Larbaud's novel Allen.