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Le château en bref
On the outskirts of Clermont-Ferrand, in the commune of Blanzat, the château is a residence built at the very end of the Ancien Régime, between 1783 and 1789. Designed in the Neoclassical style, it has orderly, restrained façades, characteristic of this period, which looked back to classical antique models. In the 19th century, its owners added a steep French-style roof, which today gives it the misleading appearance of a 17th-century château: one must look at the arrangement of the façades to recover the building's true date. The estate also includes an enclosed garden, an orangery and a park crossed by winding paths laid out in the English manner, in keeping with the 19th-century taste for landscape gardens. This coherent ensemble of house and gardens is protected as a monument historique. The château remains a private property and is not open to visitors.