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The Château de Lagarde, located in the municipality of the same name in Occitanie, dates from the seventeenth century. Today, only the wing of the communes remains, a two-storey building framed by two corner pavilions. This building, marked by a monumental gate decorated with flat pilasters and polychrome bosses, bears witness to the classical architecture of the era. Løntably, decorated with triglyphs and metopes, supports a cornice embellished with inverted volutes, while a door window dominates the whole.

The wing of the communes, the only preserved part, opens onto an esplanade where once was the main body of the castle. A vaulted passage in a cradle, aligned with the gate, allowed access to this esplanade. The current roof, modified into a two-paned model, differs from the original. Ranked a Historic Monument since 1984 for its facades and roofs, the site is now a private property, without documented public access.

The protected elements include the facades and roofs of the remaining wing, listed in the supplementary inventory by order of 16 July 1984. The portal, with its architectural details (pillars, bosses, triglyphs), illustrates the care taken to symmetry and ornamentation during the seventeenth century. No information is available on sponsors or architects, nor on the precise use of the castle before its partial degradation.

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