Château de la Palud-sur-Verdon

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Le château en bref

The Château de La Palud-sur-Verdon, now the village town hall, stands at the western end of the village in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. A first fortification was built there in the late 14th or early 15th century. Before 1570, the Demandolx-La Palud family, which held the seigneury from around 1504 until the Revolution, carried out a first enlargement. The building was then extensively rebuilt and enlarged between 1744 and 1780, which gave it its present rectangular plan, flanked by four round corner towers. Confiscated during the Revolution, it was divided in 1835 among eighteen different owners, according to the land register of the time. The commune of La Palud-sur-Verdon acquired it in 1984 and restored it entirely. Today it houses the municipal offices, the tourist office, the Maison des Gorges (a museum devoted to the Verdon Gorge) and a library. The building has been listed as a historic monument (inscrit) since 13 September 1988.