Château de Fan

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Le château en bref

Château de Fan lies below the upper town of Lussan (Gard), on the road between Barjac and Uzès. The site is said, by tradition, to have been home to a Gallic temple dedicated to the nymphs, which gave the place and the neighbouring stream their name. The present château was built around 1550 by Gaspard d'Audibert, lord of Lussan, who had returned from the Italian campaigns and was inspired by the Renaissance residences he had discovered there. Rectangular in plan and flanked by towers at three of its four corners, it rises over three storeys in the Tuscan style, beneath a roof of Roman tiles. It fell into disuse at the beginning of the 18th century, was confiscated during the Revolution and turned into an inn. It was bought back in 1795 by Théophile Gide, great-grandfather of the writer André Gide. Converted into a gendarmerie at the end of the 19th century, it was sold by the Gide family to the commune in 1920 and listed as a monument historique on 20 November 1972. It was acquired in 2008 to be converted into flats, after the gendarmerie had left in 1980. As a private property, its exterior may be visited freely.