Château de Grozon

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Château de Grozon is located in the commune of Saint-Barthélemy-Grozon, in the Ardèche, at an altitude of 600 m. Its fortifications are thought to date back to the 10th century, and the earliest historical mentions of the site date from 1186, when lands were sold to the Templar commandery of Valence. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the castle belonged in turn to the Clérieux family and then, in 1390, to Raoul de Lestrange, who bought it from Louis I de Poitier. The Lestrange family kept the estate until 1789, when the castle was set on fire during the French Revolution. Restored from 1923 onwards by Raoul Giraud, it was bequeathed in 1970 to his nephew Jacques Vernet and now belongs to Pierre-Camille Vernet. The building stands at the western end of a small rise, with a castle village (bourg castral) extending to the east, without a clearly defined fortified enclosure. Today the castle hosts receptions, weddings and seminars, offers a gîte for 8 to 10 people set up in the former oratory, and a baroque music festival is held there every year in July.