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Le château en bref
Boucoiran Castle (Gard) was built in the twelfth century by the Pelet d'Alès family to keep watch over navigation on the Gardon. Its tower, known as the ‘sarrasine’, dates back at least to the thirteenth century and still overlooks the village and the Gardon plain. Attacked and captured in 1386 by Louis Grimaldi, sent by John I, Duke of Berry, following revolts in Languedoc, it was occupied by the Tuchins in 1387. Abandoned by the Calvière-Boucoiran family in the eighteenth century, it fell into ruin before being discovered and bought in 1947 by the young Italian immigrant Giacomo Colombi, who restored it with his wife and installed a lead-cooling system in the tower for making hunting shot. A private property of the Colombi family, the castle is not open to visitors.