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Le château en bref
The Château de la Bachasse stands on a hillside overlooking the Yzeron valley, in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, in the Rhône department. Its name evokes a pond, or bachasse, dug in the courtyard of the former farm. In 1732 the estate belonged to Pierre Giry, baron de Vaux, then in 1784 to Antoine Héris, and in 1831 to Jean-Baptiste Gerbes de Tours. The present château was built at the end of the nineteenth century for the Giraud family: a rectangular central block with a mansard roof, flanked by four corner pavilions and preceded by a monumental double-flight staircase, set in a wooded park with a basin and an enclosing wall. One outbuilding retains a round turret roofed with glazed tiles. Sold to the SNCF in 1947, the estate saw the former main house demolished in 1965 and a seminar residence built in 1969; its management was entrusted in 1998 to the association AGEFOREL. The local urban plan (plan local d'urbanisme) protects the château, its outbuildings, its gateway and its wall on the avenue de l'Aqueduc de Beaunant.