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The Château de Saint-Romain-Lachalm, in Haute-Loire, has its origins in a fortified house dating from the 11th–12th centuries, arranged around a keep surrounded by moats and an enclosure wall with a wall-walk and a drawbridge. A second enclosure, flanked by two low towers, protected the outbuildings. According to the Inventory's record, the estate has been occupied by the same family since the 14th century, which spared it from abandonment. The towers were demolished during the Revolution, the moats were filled in 1827, and the towers were rebuilt in 1875 during a restoration aimed at recreating the medieval appearance. The roughly square plan comprises four wings around a courtyard, covered by a glass roof around 1875. The interior, largely 19th-century, retains monumental fireplaces, neo-Gothic stencilled paintwork, panelling and tapestries. Listed as a historic monument in 1993, it is a representative example of the Middle Ages as reinterpreted in the 19th century.