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Le château en bref
In the commune of Nérac, the historic capital of the Duchy of Albret in Lot-et-Garonne, the Château de Douazan is a seigneurial residence built in the fifteenth century and later transformed over the centuries. According to the Monuments historiques listing record, it saw building campaigns in the fifteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, each period adapting the building to the needs and tastes of its time. From its medieval state it retains in particular a stair tower and its doorway, features characteristic of the noble houses of Gascony at the end of the Middle Ages, where a spiral staircase was housed in a tower attached to the main body of the building. The estate also includes a dovecote, a sign of the seigneurial status of the site, the right to keep a dovecote having been reserved for the nobility. The stair tower with its doorway and the dovecote were listed as monuments historiques by order of 15 September 1993. The rest of the building, remodelled on several occasions, is not described in detail in the listing record. The château is privately owned.