Château de Tombebouc

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Le château en bref

Château de Tombebouc occupies the tip of a spur cut off by a dry moat, overlooking the valley of the Autonne at Allez-et-Cazeneuve, in Lot-et-Garonne. Its medieval core, built around 1275–1325 for the barony of Tombebouc linked to Pujols, comprises a rectangular keep and an L-shaped residential wing, whose walls still retain crenellations that have since been walled up. In the sixteenth century, the residential wing was enlarged and a second, U-shaped curtain wall, reinforced with four corner towers equipped with gun loops, enclosed the whole complex; a staircase was installed in the keep around 1575–1625. According to tradition, the castle served as a lair for brigands at the end of the Hundred Years' War, before being taken back by the Cieutat family and then passing to the Fumel-Montaigu family. The keep's top two storeys were levelled during the Revolution, and the vestibule, stables and bridge were rebuilt in the nineteenth century. The castle, its curtain wall, its moat and its bridge have been listed in their entirety as monuments historiques since 9 February 2009. It is owned by a property company (société civile immobilière).