Château de Brison

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Le château en bref

The Château de Brison, of which the Tour de Brison survives today, stands at an altitude of about 780 m in the commune of Sanilhac, in the southern Ardèche. First mentioned in 1210 under Étienne de Tauriers, the site was later linked to the Brison family: Arnaud de Brison is recorded in 1259, and Pierre de Brison paid homage to the Bishop of Viviers in 1333. The feudal castle originally had three large square towers arranged in a triangle. At the end of the 16th century, the seigneury passed by marriage to the Beauvoir family, then had several successive owners. Around 1705, the stones of the old castle were reused to build a new château above the hamlet of Brison, while the surviving tower was preserved. The last private owner donated the tower to the commune of Sanilhac in 1978. Restored in the late 1990s by the association Les Amis de la Tour de Brison, it now serves as a forest-fire lookout post and offers a 360° panorama over the Tanargue massif and the surrounding uplands.