Château de Font-Ségugne, Historic castle in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, France

The Château de Font-Ségugne sits on the Cancabèu plateau with a main building dating to the 1860s surrounded by extensive woodlands and vineyard parcels. The estate operates as a working winery producing Côtes-du-Rhône wines from its grounds.

This property originated as a 15th-century bastide built for an Italian Catholic cardinal. Ownership later passed through the Dukes of Gadagne and eventually came to the Giéra family.

The name Font-Ségugne comes from a small spring at the foot of the house, which Mistral described as a "bastide de plaisance" shaded by oaks, acacias and plane trees. Alphonse Tavan, the Félibrige poet from Gadagne, noted that village lovers came here on Sundays for the shade, the stone-banked pools wrapped in ivy and the winding paths through the grove.

The estate lies on the Cancabèu plateau in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, reached from the village; the grounds hold woods, a spring and vineyard parcels. The building is a winery, so visits centre on the cellar and the grounds on foot. Mistral noted the view toward Mont Ventoux and the Vaucluse gorge from the slope.

The name Font-Ségugne comes from a small spring that flows at the foot of the house, as Mistral noted. In his 1906 memoirs he recalled the poets coming here to relax "like partridges", and that Aubanel was held by the eyes of Zani, Jenny Manivet, a friend of the castle's young ladies.