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The castle of Lascours, located in Carsac-Aillac in Dordogne (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), is a manor house whose oldest parts date back to the 15th and 16th centuries. The den would have housed a noble family only after the end of the 16th century. The body of rectangular houses, flanked by a round tower with a pepper-coated staircase with wooden screws, dominates an inner courtyard bounded by outbuildings. A square tower, set in the southeast corner, completes the whole, surrounded by a pleasant garden.

The monument is protected under the Historical Monuments: the facades and roofs of the round tower were inscribed by order of 30 October 1973. The site is located at 479 C Peydezou, in the commune of Carsac-Aillac (code Insee 24082), in the former Aquitaine region. No mention is made of an opening to the public or of specific contemporary uses in the sources consulted.

Unlike its homonym of the Gard (Laudun-l-Ardoise), this castle in Lascours does not seem to be linked to an academy or organised cultural activities. Available sources (Monumentum, internal data) do not specify its current status or any recent restorations. Its architecture, however, reflects the transformations of seigneurial residences between the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, typical of the Black Perigord.

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