For more than eight hundred years, this imposing monument with magnificent slate roofs has proudly dominated the Dordogne and Bouriane valleys.
From the feudal castrum of the year 1000 to the current fortress surrounded by a triple enclosure, the building is a brilliant testimony to the great hours of the history of France, in turn the last Cathar refuge in the region in the 13th century, a fortress besieged several times during the Hundred Years War, royalist bastion during the Wars of Religion and the Fronde, and forever
“temple of the spirit” with the birth within its walls, on August 6, 1651, of the illustrious writer Fénelon. His writings, including his masterpiece Les Aventures de Télémaque, still mark European consciousness and make him the precursor of the great philosophers of the 18th century and of his native home the cradle of the Age of Enlightenment.

For more than thirty years, the castle, still private and inhabited, has undergone a vast program of safeguarding and enhancement, rewarded with several official distinctions.

Today, the interior visit of the monument includes many rooms having regained their period furniture and illustrating several centuries of history of decorative arts and seigniorial life.