Château Saint-Sauveur

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Le château en bref

Château Saint-Sauveur stands in Lafitte-sur-Lot, in the Lot-et-Garonne department. It is a small, rectangular Renaissance logis, built in the first half of the 16th century and served by a polygonal stair tower projecting partly from the building. Its chief interest lies in its Italianate wall paintings, including an Adoration of the Magi, painted after 1506-1510. Around 1560, when the village turned to the Reformation, these frescoes were covered over, and they were not rediscovered until 1955. In the 17th century, the château was used as quarters for dragoons sent against the Protestants. A north wing and a second residential block were added in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the windows of the Renaissance logis were reworked in the 1950s. A dovecote completes the ensemble, and the logis and the tower are listed as historic monuments.