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Le château en bref
Pirou Castle is a fortified castle on the west coast of the Cotentin peninsula, in the Manche département. Originally built of timber on a former Viking earthwork, it was rebuilt in stone in the 12th century on an artificial islet surrounded by three moats, and it is reached through five successive fortified gateways. The lords of Pirou held it until the marriage of Luce de Pirou to Robert de La Haye in 1319. Captured during the Hundred Years' War, it was repaired in the 15th, 17th and 18th centuries, passed to the du Bois family and then to the de Vassy family, and eventually was converted into a farm. In 1966, Abbé Marcel Lelégard acquired it and began its restoration, which was continued by the foundation of the Abbey of La Lucerne. The castle houses the Pirou Tapestry, a long embroidery of 58 metres devoted to the Norman conquest of southern Italy.