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Origin and history

Candillargues Castle, mentioned as Candilhanicis Castrum in the 13th century, is a historic site anchored in the Languedoc landscape. The first written traces come from Maguelone's cartular, revealing a medieval occupation before the major transformations of the following centuries.

In the 17th century, Jean de Lauzelergues acquired the seigneury in 1624 and erected the present building. The castle then passed to the family of La Croix, a nobility of the Languedoc, which kept it until the Revolution. Its architecture includes remarkable elements such as dogive vaults and a staircase combining straight flights and dayless screws.

In the 19th century, the castle became the heart of a vast wine estate under Émile Galtayries. In 1893, its cellars, capable of storing 40,000 hectolitres, illustrated the economic growth of the village, whose population tripled between 1851 and 1912. The estate was fragmented in 1931-1935, then the castle itself was divided into lots in the 1980s.

Today private property, the castle is listed in the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage. Its history reflects the social and economic changes of Languedoc, from feudality to industrial viticulture, to revolutionary upheavals.

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