Château de Buffières

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Château de Buffières is located in the commune of Dolomieu, in Isère. A pleasure house of the 17th century, remodelled in the 21st century, it has an L-shaped plan over three storeys: the main façade, facing east, has three superimposed bays of openings and a central projecting section with a carved triangular pediment; the rear of the building forms an almost square mass with an apse at the western corner. A 19th-century chapel was added on the south side. Built by the Gratet de Dolomieu family, to which belonged the geologist and mineralogist Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, after whom the Dolomites are named, the pediment bears the joined coats of arms of the Gratet de Dolomieu and Bérenger-Sassenage families. Owned by the town of Saint-Fons (Rhône) since 1951, it was sold to a private buyer in 2020.