Castle of l'Estriverie
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Attribution: By Jean-Pol GRANDMONT - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22816387
Castle of l'Estriverie passed by marriage to the Cottrel family, who kept it for seven generations. This family did most of the restoring and rebuilding in the 16th and 17th century, and turned the fortified medieval dwelling into a graceful chateau.
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