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Château Saint-Lambert
2026-03-17
Up on a hill, off a little used road over the ridge that borders the northern edge of Luberon sits a castle. This castle sticks out for a singular reason: The shutters are open. The shutters are never open. Better check this one out. Probably just a locked gate at the top of the steep unmaintained road. Nope. The isolated 17th century castle was purchased by the local government and converted to a sanatorium in the 1930s and repurposed to a psychiatric institution in the 1990s. The hospital eventually closed, and was sold to the wealthy owner of a chain of boarding schools who left it abandoned, which hasn't gone well.
