Puycalvary Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

At Dausse, above the Lot valley not far from Penne-d'Agenais, Puycalvary Castle embodies three centuries of seigneurial architecture. The site is attested in 1288, and a 13th-century keep of the tower-hall type forms its core. In the 15th century the castle was rebuilt and flanked by two round towers; the Raffin family, who held it from 1477, added a Renaissance façade in the early 16th century under Antoine de Raffin, along with a chapel vaulted with ribs, completed in 1536. A Louis XIII-style staircase tower completed the ensemble later on, the whole still protected by a moat crossed by a drawbridge. After the Raffins, the seigneury passed to the Lusignan de Saint-Gelais, then to the Guiscards, who bought it in 1660, and finally to the Souilhagon de Bruet family in 1815. The castle has been listed as a monument historique since 1925.