Château de La Tour

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Le château en bref

The Château de la Tour, also known as the Château de la Tour-Poinsac, stands on a wooded slope overlooking the valley of Saint-Pierreville, in the Ardèche. Medieval in origin, it belonged to the Poinsac family from 1385 to 1543, then passed to the Vocance family in 1663 through the marriage of Antoine-David de Vocance to Jeanne de Poinsac. At the beginning of the 20th century it belonged to a Mr Lascombe. The building later housed a holiday camp linked to Nîmes Cathedral between 1956 and 1960, and then served as a family farm run by the Michel family. Bought in the 1980s and again in the 1990s by successive owners who undertook restoration work, the château was severely damaged by an arson fire in December 2016, which destroyed a large part of the roof. It now stands as a ruin, a private property not open to the public.