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Le château en bref
Voissant Castle, known locally as the Vieux Château (the Old Castle), stands to the north-east of the village of Voissant, in the Isère department, overlooking the valleys of the Ainan and the Guiers. The lords of Voissant appear as early as 1129 with Anselme Garcin, then Pierre de Voissant around 1147, although the present castle is not attested at those dates. The building consists of two wings set at right angles, one of which is flanked by two square towers. The older wing dates from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; the second was built around 1635, with a high hip roof of fish-scale tiles, a feature typical of the earliest French-style roofs in the Dauphiné. A stone cross dated 1682 attests the presence of Isaac de Garnier, and around 1750 a lady of Larnage inherited the residence and remodelled it. The interior retains a staircase with a string-course wall (mur d'échiffre). The façades, roofs and this staircase have been listed as historic monuments since 3 October 1983. A privately owned property, the castle opens its exterior, its garden and its terrace during the European Heritage Days (Journées européennes du patrimoine).