Château de Cabrières is located on the left bank of the Lumensonesque river, 4 km northwest of Compeyre, overlooking the old Millau/Séverac road in Occitania (Aveyron, Massif Central, France).
It comprises a 20th-century rectangular main building, flanked by two towers and a square keep, most of which date from the 15th century.
Traces of the castle date back to 1070, then to 1260, when it belonged to Ricard, a damoiseau, who claimed to own it from Count Alphonse. Then in 1431, when a garrison under the orders of the Seigneur de Loupiac and the Comte d’Armagnac was set up to drive out the routiers.
It passed through the hands of several families: Montvallat, Calmont, Jory, Foucras, Barthélémy, Cahuzac, Carbon, and Buscarlet, before becoming the property of singer Emma Calvé in 1900, who set up a singing school there.
How to get to?
From Paris: 6 hr (633 km) via A71 and A75
From Toulouse: 2 hr 24 min (201 km) via A68 and N88
From Andorra: 4 hr 41 min (379 km) via N88
From Barcelona: 4 hr 1 min (415 km) via AP-7, A9 and A75
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