Castles to visit Cher

Situated on the Jacques Coeur road, this feudal castle was fortified by Gillon de Seuly, founder of the city, at the end of the th century. Surrounded by a moat, surrounded by round towers, a dungeon and dominated by a pond, it is furnished and inhabited but opened to the public. Count Jean of Ogny, owner of the castle, opened his doors and commented on his own visit to the residence where the lords of La Chapelle-d'Angillon, princes of Boisbelle, but also Sully, Princess of Albret, Princess of Kleve (who served as a model to Ms de La Fayette for her famous novel), Gonzague prince of Boisbelle or the Duke from Nevers. Inside, the visit allows you to see all the pieces, distributed by narrow stairs. This romantic castle houses a unique and quite astonishing collection in Europe on the th century Albania. Sunday mass can be seen in the beautiful castle chapel traditionally celebrated every Sunday at 10 pm. Reception is worthy of the great hospital tradition. The passions of the owners animate these places and they will make you discover their coups. The castle can be rented for weddings or other ceremonies.

The Stuarts Castle has the privilege of building in our memory an architectural meeting dating from the Renaissance. It was built by Robert Stuart, the first captain of the Scottish guard and lord of Aubigny from 1508 to 1540, which was widely illustrated during the Italian campaigns. A part is now dedicated to the city hall. Not to mention the Auld-Alliance Memorial, which thus perpetuates the sealed pact between the kingdoms of France and Scotland. You can also admire the tapestries of Aubusson by Louis XIV in Louise de Keroualle. Restorations took place since, especially the south wing at the end of the nineteenth century. It has been classified as Historic Monument since 1862, thank you certainly Mérimée!

Crime at the castle: August 25, 2018

Fun animation during which participants will have to lift the veil on a murder!

Full fare 20 €, reduced rate 16 €.

Although visiting the interior of the castle is impossible for the public, discovering the exterior is already a delight, even though, from "twelve or fourteen beautiful and sumptuous towers" which were still crowning it in the fifteenth century, many of them were destroyed in the centuries destroyed. At the end of the nineteenth century, Eugène Schneider acquired the beautiful ensemble and constantly restored it, investing both its time and its means to make it one of the most striking in the region. Overlooking the village, it gives its nobility to one of the "most beautiful villages of France", a rare jewel, which is the picturesque medieval village of Apremont-sur-Allier.