Château de Sémignan

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Le château en bref

A few kilometres west of the village of Saint-Laurent-Médoc, the Château de Sémignan is a fortified manor house whose limestone buildings are arranged in a U-shape around a courtyard with a well. Its oldest element is a tall square tower built at the beginning of the 14th century: it retains corbels for machicolations, but its top has been converted into a dovecote. In the 16th century, a barrel-vaulted passage, opened by a pointed arch, was fitted at the centre of the complex, while other wings, roofed with pantiles on hipped roofs, date from the 19th century. Broad water-filled moats, crossed by two bridges, still surround the enclosure. Recorded as ruinous and in poor condition during the 1986 inventory survey, the fortified manor house, privately owned, has since 1996 been the subject of restoration works carried out by volunteer associations.