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17 and 18 September 2022Passed
Conditions
Free admission. Reduced price of 7 euros. Free for children and students. Health pass required.
September 2022
Saturday 17
10:00 - 12:00
14:00 - 18:00
Sunday 18
10:00 - 12:00
14:00 - 18:00
0 to 99 years old

Château de Lavoûte-Polignac

43800 Lavoûte-sur-Loire
  • Haute-Loire
  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Guided visits to the castle of Lavoûte-Polignac

The Château de Lavoûte offers guided tours and a thematic exhibition.
17 and 18 September 2022Passed
Conditions
Free admission. Reduced price of 7 euros. Free for children and students. Health pass required.
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  • Guided visits - Exhibition " De l'art héraldique".
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Château de Lavoûte-Polignac
43800 Lavoûte-sur-Loire
  • Haute-Loire
  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Castle of the twelfth and fourteenth centuries remodeled in the seventeenth and restored in the nineteenth. Houses collections and souvenirs related to the famous House of Polignac.
The Duke of Polignac prides himself - rightly - on owning the first castle of the Loire. And what a castle! Forget Blois and Chambord. Here, about fifteen kilometers north of Le Puy, the Loire is still a stream of impetuous water, and the meander - the «vault» - that encloses the Polignac residence on its spur is almost perfect. From the terrace of the first floor, where one plunges at peak on the Loire, 45 meters below, one sees the herons and sheep, peaceful at the edge of the water.
«We have lived here for a thousand years and the family has long ruled the Velay», explains the most calmly in the world the duke, as elegant as he is erudite. Visiting the castle in his company is a strange aristocratic journey through time. My grandmother, the Duchess of Polignac, was the great friend of Marie-Antoinette an
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Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir, Monument historique
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