Château de Conas

En un regard

Le château en bref

Conas Castle, in Pézenas (Hérault), whose lordship was shared between the Conas family and allied lineages from the mid-thirteenth century, passed to Bertrand de Cases in 1388 and then, by marriage in 1606, to the Lauzières and Thézan-Poujol families, who held it until 1791, when it was confiscated and sold as national property after its owners had emigrated. The Mel family of Pézenas acquired it during the nineteenth century. Built essentially in the first third of the seventeenth century by Raymond de Thézan-Poujol, the château features a central tower housing a rampe-sur-rampe staircase with pendentive domes, modelled on the Pézenas town houses, as well as two vaulted rooms; neo-Gothic additions from the second half of the nineteenth century were removed in 1936. Now privately owned, the building is constructed of local limestone under a tiled roof.