Château de Torsiac

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Le château en bref

Overlooking the Allagnon valley, the Château de Torsiac, in the Haute-Loire, is presented by the Inventaire as a major monument of this area. A lord of Torsiac is mentioned as early as 1268. The medieval core is a 14th-century rectangular keep with vaulted rooms and spiral staircases, to which a curtain wall on the north side was added. In the 17th century, probably, a rectangular residential wing flanked by three round towers was associated with it. The 19th century profoundly altered the whole: a large round tower at the western corner, reworked roofs, and a fanciful crowning of the keep with machicolations and crenellations, work attributed by a secondary source to the Clermont architect Poinson, between 1853 and 1902. Part of the outbuildings has disappeared. The keep has been listed as a monument historique since 7 February 1994; the château remains a privately owned property.