Tour du Couffour

English translation

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History

The tower and neighbouring buildings, vestiges of the old castle, recall the important role of this place during the Hundred Years War. Tower of circular plan to which is adjoined, to the west, a small tower also circular enclosing the spiral staircase serving the storeys. The ground floor room, roughly square, is covered with a barrel vault. The upper rooms present, on each of the three storeys, an arrangement approximately similar. Small circular rooms communicate with each of these halls. On the first storey, one of them preserves remains of paintings where, on a background of bouquets of foliage and flowers, are painted portraits of women in a medallion and landscapes in rectangular frames. The first storey room preserves a painted wooden fireplace of the 18th century.