Lunegarde Castle

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Le château en bref

Lunegarde Castle, in the Lot, is an eighteenth-century manor house built on the edge of the village, at some distance from the former medieval castle. The fief, held by Guillaume Balène from 1290 to 1301 and listed by Jean d'Auriole in 1504, belonged at the beginning of the seventeenth century to the Vidal de Lapize family, who had the present building erected: the main block and a first wing date from 1736, while the second wing bears the date 1773. Built of rendered limestone rubble and roofed with flat tiles, it has a main block of one storey with attics, two short wings set at right angles, and a small square tower at the rear, set within a courtyard and a park. In 1942, the writer Pierre Benoît published a novel entitled Lunegarde. The château and its interior decoration have been listed as monuments historiques since 16 September 1991. It remains a private property, not open to visitors.