Château de Castelnau Valence

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Castelnau-Valence Castle (Gard), in an exceptionally advantageous position, dates back to a military construction of the 10th century, probably demolished and then rebuilt in the 11th century. Acquired in 1500 by the Boileau family, who held it for several generations, it served at the beginning of the 18th century as a refuge for the Camisard leader Pierre Laporte, known as Roland, during the War of the Cévennes. Passed by marriage in 1836 to the de Valfons family, whose descendants still live there, the estate retains a studded door and an armorial stained-glass window bearing an azure crescent. The estate is also home to a thousand-year-old cade (juniper), one of the oldest in Europe, which local tradition associates with Roland.