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Le château en bref
Gachepouy Castle, between Lectoure and Miradoux at Castet-Arrouy (Gers), takes its name from the Gascon "gachar" (to watch out) and "pouy" (hill). It overlooks the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela (GR 65, via Podiensis) from a circular motte at 175 m above sea level. A Gascon fortress built for defence in the 14th century, with a rectangular main block of two storeys flanked by two towers (north-east and south-west) and a sealed ground floor, it was extensively remodelled into a residence between 1579 and 1584 by Anne d'Aydie, Baroness of Pordéac. In 1584 the master carpenter Gabriel Charles built a four-pitched roof "à la mode de France" there, and in 1601 the mason Raymond Salles added a stair tower. Abandoned during the First World War, it gradually fell into ruin. Privately owned, it has been listed in the general inventory of cultural heritage since 1987.