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Le château en bref
The Château de la Fare, at Cavillargues (Gard), dates back to a twelfth-century keep, to which a fortified manor house was added in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It was set on fire in 1562 by the Huguenots during the Wars of Religion, and was rebuilt between 1567 and 1571 in the Renaissance style. Its façade, completed around 1570, is considered one of the three Renaissance façades in the Gard and is probably the most beautiful of them. It superimposes the three Greek orders (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) across its storeys, and features windows with ornate capitals, decorative gargoyles and a spiral staircase of 70 steps. A fief of the Chaudeyrac family (1250-1386), then of the de la Fare family, originally from Saint-André-de-Valborgne, from the end of the fourteenth century until 1779, the château has been restored and lived in since 1919 by the Arnaud-Bobot family, who carried out major preservation works completed in 2016.