Galerie Égrégore

After 10 years of existence in Marmande, where more than 250 artists have exhibited, the Égrégore Gallery reopens in Casteljaloux-La Réunion in an exceptional space : a barn of 24 nativity scenes and the memories of a chapel completely redesigned as an Art Gallery, preserving the beauty of the place. The site is steeped in history. Its occupation dates back to the Neolithic period. The remains of a Roman road run alongside the buildings. With Captain Soulier, comrade in arms of Henri IV, the estate was a stronghold of the Reformed Religion.

All the buildings that made up the farm were enclosed by walls that no longer exist today. However, there are still many vestiges of it:

- Remarkable entrance pillars of the old estate,
- Bread ovens, from the beginning of the 18th century,
- Dovecote with remarkable stone staircase from 1602,
- Large barn rehabilitated in 1941 with 24 crèches.

The 27 hectare estate surrounding the gallery is classified by the Conservatoire des Espaces Naturels de Nouvelle Aquitaine. You can admire works outside in the shelter of three-hundred-year-old oaks and pines within a protected area. The Egrégore gallery plays a very important role in the development of the territory, both economically and touristically, as well as culturally and educationally. It provides a welcome and personalized mediation for individual visitors as well as families, cultural social groups and schoolchildren.