Château de Fabrègues

English translation

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History

Castle mentioned from the 10th century. The building of the early 19th century presents a square pavilion crowned with machicolations, which must have constituted the medieval part of the castle (14th - 15th century), a main dwelling arranged at an angle (17th) with an corner tower with a pepper-pot roof, and, between the two buildings, serving as a link between them and the entrance porch, a narrow building body whose facade was pierced with a portal and a mullioned window and adorned with two turrets with pepper-pot roofs (15th - 16th century). In 1898-1899, the castle was rebuilt by architect Viee who preserved the foundations of the pavilions but replaced those of the porch to build a monumental porch. The latter is designed on a centred plan, circular on the inside and square on the outside, covered with an imperial roof topped with a false lantern adopting the form of a portico in antique style. The two facades are composed of a large portal surrounded by wide pilasters with rustication and at the second level of a arched pediment surmounting an arched opening with concave voussures. Inside, the porch is surmounted by a dome whose drum is pierced with large openings fitted with geometric stained glass signed Pompey. The first level is surrounded by a gallery with walls decorated with floral stencilled ornament. The dome is decorated with a coloured ceramic rosace. The rooms are covered with woodwork, including those of the dining room due to the cabinetmaker Brousse. The castle is preceded by a vast park crossed by an access drive, with a semi-circular basin decorated with a cast iron sculpture composed of a dolphin's head surrounded by reeds and a child sitting in a shell. At the rear, the original layout of the parterres was not entirely completed; at the end of the drive, a square-plan orangery masks part of the outbuildings located in the north extension.