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Le château en bref
In Puy-l'Évêque, in the Lot valley between Cahors and Fumel, the Château de Bar is a building that was probably military from the outset, positioned to monitor river traffic on the Lot. It takes its name from the Bar family, merchants and clerics active in the region around 1370, who held it from 1505 to 1572. During the Wars of Religion, it was occupied in 1570 by Protestant troops. The château then passed by marriage to the de Guiscard family and, around 1770, to the Campagnac family, whose descendants still live there. Its façade, remodelled in the 18th century, opens onto a semicircular perron and is flanked by four corner towers with lozenge-shaped plans. It retains older features: cellars with Romanesque vaults and a monolithic bugadier, staircases carved into the thickness of the walls, pebble floors, and 16th-century arrow loops and gun ports. Privately owned, it is not open to visitors but remains visible from the outside.