Château de Béduer

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Le château en bref

Perched on a hillside overlooking the Célé valley, near Figeac, the Château de Béduer is a feudal fortress whose origins date back to the 11th century; it is first mentioned in 1214. It was probably in the hands of the Barasc family until the mid-16th century. In the 13th century, Géraud Barasc, Bishop of Cahors from 1237 to 1250, carried out a major building campaign here. The castle is laid out on a rectangular platform measuring roughly thirty by fifty metres, dominated by a square 13th-century tower more than nine metres along each side, in the Romanesque tradition. After the Hundred Years' War, the residential buildings were remodelled between the 15th and 17th centuries. The castle retains a salle des États (Estates Hall), a medieval chapel, loopholes and crenellations, and its thick walls are reinforced by flat buttresses. In 1911 it passed to the industrialist Maurice Fenaille. The façades and roofs of the keep and the rusticated portico have been listed as monuments historiques since 25 July 1973.