Château de Ségure

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Le château en bref

Château de Ségure, in Arreau (Hautes-Pyrénées, avenue de Camalau), recorded as a regional stronghold as early as 1489, comprises a medieval square tower built on the rock (a former keep) and three residential ranges: the oldest housed within the medieval tower, a second half-timbered range with an external spiral staircase dating from around 1589, and a third from the 18th century. Covered machicolations were added around 1930. Abandoned around 1530 after an outbreak of plague, it successively belonged to Arnaud de Gourgue at the end of the 16th century, then was bought in 1594 by Jehan Fornier, Doctor of Law, whose descendants kept it until 1757. It then passed to Count Jean-Louis-Hector Galiay de Ségure, and in the 19th century to the notary Jean-Philippe Rolland, before being bequeathed in 1983 to the Hautes-Pyrénées département by Mme Maratuech. A departmental property since that date, it occupies a strategic position at the junction of the Aure and Louron valleys.