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Château d'Avezan (Gers), probably built around 1230 on the site of an earlier fortification, originally comprised a keep with thick walls rising over a vaulted hall, at the heart of a fortified village. Owned by the viscounts of Lomagne until 1285, it passed that year to Sanche Garcie de Manas through a donation by Viscount Othon de Lomagne. Remodelled in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it was acquired in 1651 by Alexandre de Larroquan, who had the west wing, two towers and residential spaces built; his brother Jacques de Larroquan, a maréchal des logis favoured by the king, spared the château the dismantling that befell many fortified places at the time. Fallen into ruin in the eighteenth century after successive changes of ownership, it has been under restoration since 1972, undertaken by Patrice Cournot and continued over more than thirty years, before being listed as a monument historique in 1984; the current owners are completing the restoration and dedicating it to art and culture.