The Cayla castle-museum (or Eugénie and Maurice de Guérin museum, Château-musée du Cayla) is located in the commune of Andillac, in the Tarn department, Occitania region (foothills of the Massif Central, France).
Originally, a hunting lodge was built in the 15th century on this location. After various alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries, the castle was transformed into a manor house in the first half of the 19th century.
The castle was the property of the family of Maurice de Guérin, prose writer and poet.
The building has been transformed into a castle-museum dedicated to Maurice de Guérin and his sister Eugénie de Guérin, to literature and painting.
Georges-Maurice de Guérin (4 August 1810 – 19 July 1839) was a French poet. His works were imbued with a passion for nature whose intensity reached almost to worship and was enriched by pagan elements. According to Sainte-Beuve, no French poet or painter rendered “the feeling for nature, the feeling for the origin of things and the sovereign principle of life” as well as Guérin.
Temporary exhibitions are regularly presented there.
In January 2021, the museum, previously managed by a public establishment, was taken over by the Tarn department.
How to get to?
From Paris: 7 hr 9 min (656 km) via A20
From Toulouse: 1 hr 12 min (72.4 km) via A68
From Andorra: 3 hr 23 min (252 km) via A68
From Barcelona: 4 hr 50 min (462 km) via AP-7 and A61
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