House of the Verrières

The castle of Verrieres also said Castel-house or Gesta of Verrières is located avenue Honoré Serres, Toulouse.

This is a neo-Gothic style building built in 1860 by Louis Victor Gesta, a recognized master glassmaker whose factory was producing windows for particular churches. In a park Chalets district, was first erected a building to show use in medieval style.

Then the castle was erected adjacent to the first building with a turret northeast, and two corbelled turrets southeast. Gesta's genius was to reuse decorative elements of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (windows warheads, balcony canopy, pepperpot turret, gargoyles on the south facade). However, in terms of decoration, are the primed canvases of the ceiling and the room of Illustrious, signed by the painter Benezet, which reveal the masterpiece and jewel of the castle. They represent aspects of the history of the city and its famous children...

The area (castle and park) however experienced throughout the twentieth century a turbulent history, occupied for a time by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, and houses a school, conservatory classes, a private school and even police trainees. He was even "squatted" at the turn of 2000.

But a new page has been turned. Protected as historical monuments since 1991, the building that the city of Toulouse had bought during a period is now again privately owned, and careful restoration campaign was initiated.

The castle can be seen on a walk in this area of ​​the city. Information at +33 8 92 18 01 80.