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Château de Marqueyssac (Vézac)
Château de Marqueyssac is a 17th-century château in Vézac, Dordogne, noted for its extensive formal and romantic gardens. The house sits on cliffs overlooking the Dordogne Valley and is surrounded by terraces, alleys and densely planted boxwood parterres developed in the 19th century.
Its prime
1865
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1865
What Château de Marqueyssac (Vézac) looked like in its prime.
Long, low 17th‑century château with pale rendered stone walls and a very steep, stone‑tiled hipped roof punctured by small dormer windows and squat chimneys; the main block flanked by lower pavilion‑like ends. In front are formal terraces and tightly clipped boxwood parterres and alleys, many rounded topiary groups, set on a cliff edge with the Dordogne valley and wooded hills in the distance.
Its story
The story of Château de Marqueyssac (Vézac).
The Château de Marqueyssac was built at the end of the 17th century by Bertrand Vernet de Marqueyssac, Counsellor to King Louis XIV, on cliffs overlooking the Dordogne Valley at Vézac.
Its original jardin à la française was attributed to a pupil of André Le Nôtre, with terraces, alleys and a kitchen garden surrounding the château; the densely planted boxwood parterres for which Marqueyssac is now noted were developed in the 19th century, and the gardens remain the estate's chief fame.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1865.
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Clans who held Château de Marqueyssac (Vézac).
The families that held Château de Marqueyssac (Vézac) for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Vernet de Marqueyssac
Bertrand Vernet de Marqueyssac, Counsellor to Louis XIV, built the château at the end of the 17th century.
