En un regard
Le château en bref
Overlooking the village of Saint-Étienne-Vallée-Française, in the heart of the Lozère Cévennes, the Château de Cambiaire is representative of the residential seigneurial manors that multiplied in the region from the fourteenth century onwards. Construction began in 1366, when Bernard and Pierre de Raymond de Calberte obtained authorisation from the viscount of Beaufort; as early as 1392, the lords of the castle repurchased part of the rights of justice of Saint-Étienne. The quadrangular building is flanked by round towers at three of its corners and by a square tower to the north-west; its keep, built of schist and white quartz, has three storeys, the last of which dates from the late fifteenth century. Remaining in the hands of the Raymond family until the eighteenth century, the manor then passed by marriage to the Cabiron family. Set on fire in 1944, it was restored, and in 2021 an architect of the Monuments historiques confirmed its dating to the fourteenth century. The château can be admired from its gardens, but the interior, which houses guest rooms, is not open to visitors.
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