Château de Puimisson

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Puimisson, north of Béziers, is one of those Languedoc villages built in a circulade, its houses wound in concentric rings around a strongpoint. The centre is occupied here by the former seigneurial château, of feudal origin, which commanded the village. The residence was substantially remodelled in the 18th century, when it took on most of its present appearance. Its façades, roofs and staircase with its banister have been judged worthy of protection, as has an interior room that retains a wallpaper decoration dated 1789, a rare and fragile testimony to the interiors of the late Ancien Régime. These elements have been listed as monuments historiques since 28 April 1997. Now a communal property, the château today houses the town hall, which maintains at the heart of the circulade the role of local seat of power it already held in the Middle Ages.