Château de Valon is a castle located in the town of Lacroix-Barrez, in the French department of Aveyron.The castle, built in rubble except the dungeon, including a forecourt fully closed by residential buildings that lined a courtyard beneath which is a solid wall that forms shirt to keep. A second door led from the corridor with a passage. We had to work around the dungeon to find the entrance. The dungeon was a watchtower at each corner and a lofty hall surrounded by battlements.
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Château de Valon

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Château de Messilhac is located in the municipality of Raulhac in the Cantal. It was established around the twelfth century on a promontory overlooking the Goul Valley. It is brought as a dowry by Margaret of Bénavent Rodez to Jean-Montamat. It is edited in 1537 by Jean de Montamat, coseigneur Polminhac, making it the only intact remnant of the Renaissance in the department. Castle Messilhac shows an example of stately home of the thirteenth century modified in the sixteenth century. It is surrounded by a wall with irregular contours whose relief is obtained by the size of the elongated rock platform on which it was built. Common are backed by the enclosure of the north side. From the ancient wall that protected the castle once, there remains the tower called "the dungeon" currently connected to the castle by a small wing of the eighteenth century. The drawbridge was to be found in the east. Remains of other ancient buildings show the importance of the ancient castle. The beautiful Renaissance main building built in 1531 by Jean de Montamat is flanked by two square towers, the oldest, one of which is the thirteenth century. Their vertices and of the façade are surmounted by a covered walkway, with turrets and battlements angles. Home body has three floors each divided into four parts. They have retained their French ceilings and fireplaces. Mullioned windows, staircase with its vaulted liernes and tiercerons, fireplaces and molded doors attest to the wealth of the owners who built or aménagèrent Castle Messilhac. The door is confined to Renaissance fusiform columns while other ornamentations are more transitional. It has been a listed building March 16, 1921. You can visit the castle of the first Messilhac May to 31 August, 14 h 30-18 h 30.
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Château de Messilhac

Classified as Historic Monument since 1945, the Castle of Estaing has both remarkable history and architecture that we invite you to discover.
Standing on a schistose promontory that overlooks the river Lot, the castle was for nearly eight centuries the residence of the Estaing family, one of the most famous of the Rouergue.
From the 11th to the 18th century the structures have evolved by adapting to the needs and fashions of each generation: the defensive loopholes near the decorative balusters adorned by the Estaing’s coat of arms; the roman, flamboyant gothic and renaissance styles share the frontages.
Several members of the Estaing family, military or religious, figure in the history of France, and that of the Rouergue:
Tristan, hero of the battle of Bouvines in 1214;
Pierre, cardinal in the 14th century;
François, bishop of Rodez in the 16th century;
Charles-Henri, Admiral, commanding the French fleet sent to support the War of Independence of the United States.
In 1794, seized and parcelled out, the building is sold by the State as national property. In 1836, the castle becomes the mother house of the religious Congregation Saint-Joseph d’Estaing. It is ceded to the city of Estaing in 2000.
In 2005, the SCI of the Chateau d’Estaing, formed by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, President of the French Republic from 1974 to 1981, becomes owner of the building;
Then begins a programme of restoration intended to give back to the castle its original aspect and to make it a place of memories.
The works are realized, inside as well as outside the buildings, by qualified craftsmen who have at heart to give back life to this so special building.
The restored rooms will progressively receive furniture, objects and historic documents to better present the history of the castle.
In 2012, the castle became the property of the Foundation Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, recognized of public benefit.
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Château d'Estaing

The Château de Vixouges (or Château de Vixouze) is a medieval castle in the commune Polminhac in the Cantal département of the Auvergne, in France.
The entire castle, including the kitchen, dining room, the room on the first floor of the keep, the room on the second floor with a monumental fireplace, the room with pilasters, the room in the north room, the chapel and the bakery was classified on 7 November 2000 as a monument historique.
Description
The central square defensive tower dates from the 13th century. In the 15th century, the tower was rebuilt, the staircase dates from this period. The tower has on its ground floor and in the first floor square rooms and on top of it an attic. A barn is dated to the year 1613. The chapel and the oven are also from the 17th century. Two wings and the boundary wall were created in 1719. The fountain at the entrance of the castle is a work of the 19th century, being erected after 1811.
History
Vixouze was first mentioned as a villa in 930. It was a gift by Bernard de Carlat Vicomte Carlat to the prior of Conques (villa mea que vocatur Vidditiosa).
According to a report dating from 1267, Vixouges was constructed as a noble site with one tower. In the Hundred Years' War, it was largely demolished. It was rebuilt in the 15th century.

Château de Vixouze

Pesteils Castle is a medieval castle in Polminhac in the Cantal. In 1942, he was the setting for the film The Eternal Return with Madeleine Sologne and Jean Marais. It is the subject of a classification as historical monuments since July 18, 1994. The Pesteils castle is located on a rocky promontory overlooking the village of Polminhac and the Cère Valley. The tower 40 meters high dating from the end of the Middle Ages, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the beginning of the Hundred Years War. During the second half of the seventeenth century, home of the body and the corner flag were enlarged. The castle was redesigned by architect Emile Lemaigre in the late nineteenth century. In the nineteenth century, their interiors have been redesigned in the Neo-Gothic taste and redeveloped in the early twentieth century. The fifteenth century frescoes located in the dungeon were restored in 2008 (Sotheby's price), painted ceilings of the seventeenth century, scenes from Greek mythology, adorn two rooms on the 1st floor of the main building. An old kitchen, restored in 2000 received the La Cornue. Murals of the first quarter of the twentieth century Tourdes Félix (1855-1920) are classified historic monument under Item since 1980. The park of the castle of Pesteils was redesigned in the early twentieth century. It has a quay terrace, a vegetable garden and an orchard. It was recorded in pre-inventory of remarkable gardens.
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