Château de Courbefy

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Le château en bref

The Château de Courbefy stands in the hamlet of Courbefy, in the commune of Bussière-Galant (Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine). A former medieval royal fortress that later became a den of brigands, it was destroyed in the 16th century on the orders of the consuls of Limoges. The hamlet, made an independent commune during the Revolution, merged with Saint-Nicolas in 1800 to form Saint-Nicolas-Courbefy, which was itself absorbed by Bussière-Galant in 1974. Depopulated in the early 2000s after the 2008 bankruptcy of its last resident, who had developed a hotel-restaurant there in the 1990s, the entire village was sold at auction on 21 May 2012 for 520,000 euros to South Korean businessman Yoo Byung-eun, who planned to develop environmental, artistic and cultural projects there. A 17th-century chapel survives about fifty metres from the former keep, near votive fountains, one of which, dedicated to Saint Eutropius, is still maintained through offerings.