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Le château en bref
In the centre of the village of Pégairolles-de-l'Escalette, the château is a building with three wings arranged around an inner courtyard, the fourth side being closed off by the enclosure wall. The site is first mentioned in 824, when Louis the Pious granted the château to the bishop of Lodève; in the sixteenth century it passed to Louis de Fabre, the first temporal lord of the place. Each corner is defended by a round tower, except in the south-east, where the rectangular keep once stood and is now partly in ruins. The residential quarters occupy the north wing and the central block, while the south side houses barns, storerooms and stables; the staircase serving the upper floors spans the full width of the courtyard and is lit by two superimposed galleries with arcades. The product of successive alterations since the twelfth century, the château owes most of its appearance to the transformations of the seventeenth century; the battlements and upper parts of the towers were demolished in 1793. Privately owned, it has been listed as a monument historique for its façades and roofs, galleries included, since 1984, and today it welcomes guests as a chambres d'hôtes.
