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The Castanet farmhouse, located in Moissac, is a building built between the second half of the 15th century and the first half of the 16th century. This monument, classified as Historic Monuments, reflects the rural architecture of this period, with facades and roofs protected from 1947. Originally, it was a farm, typical of the estates of the time, integrated into a network of local properties.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the farmhouse belonged to the Marquis of Timbrune-Valence, who bequeathed it in 1732 at the hospital of Moissac. This establishment had already received in 1714 the land near Milhole. The management of the estate was then entrusted to a community of nuns serving the hospital, who held it until the 19th century. These nuns gave up part of the land for the creation of a racetrack, before selling the entire estate of Castanet to private individuals in 1966.

Among the remarkable elements of the site, the pigeon-house on columns, protected in 1947, collapsed and was depopulated, causing its radiation from the Historic Monuments in September 2013. The racetrack of Castanet, which has now disappeared, has given way to agricultural land. The estate thus preserves the traces of a history mixing architectural heritage, agricultural use and transformations linked to local needs over the centuries.

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