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Le château en bref
Built on a 12th-century feudal motte, Belmont Castle was given in 1398 to the Sérignac family by the counts of Armagnac. In 1630, Charles Ogier de Sérignac, thanks to a compensation payment from Louis XIII for his services as captain of the guard of Albi, had the first stone building erected for his wife, who came from the d'Artagnan family. Around 1780, the marriage of the last Sérignac heiress to a Pontac brought the castle into the latter family as her dowry. Major works then raised the building to two storeys, added a south façade facing the Pyrenees, and built three towers. Passing to the d'Antras family and then to farming families (Leplus, Le Chevalier, Grenier, who restored it in the late 1990s), it was acquired in December 2017 by the company Buena Onda to develop the Château-Neuf des Peuples project. One of the largest châteaux in the Gers, it retains a rare double-revolution staircase, one of only two examples in the region.