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Le château en bref
The Château de la Rode, in Aumessas (Gard), is said to date back to the 9th–10th century. It retains a great tower, a spiral staircase, an oubliette, a trapdoor, arrow slits, a watch post, extensive vaulted cellars and a round-arched fireplace, as well as heraldic trefoils of the Roquefeuil family carved into the old stonework. From the year 1000 onwards it passed between the families of Azemar, Cantobre and then du Pont de la Rode. It became a centre of Cathar and then Protestant faith: after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, its inhabitants were persecuted, and two of them were executed in 1703. Fully restored by the André family between 2007 and 2011, then bought by Didier and Murielle in January 2014, it now offers apartments and guest rooms in a one-hectare terraced park crossed by an old millrace.