Castles to visit Eure-Et-Loir

Only a moat separates the castle of the Saint-Lubin church. The buildings and the park that stretches behind were built between the th and th centuries. Following an unusual architecture in the region, the church presents a series of stained glass windows telling the story of Saint Lubin, the former bishop of Chartres. By entering the gardens of the castle, the surprise continues with canals, where Coule flows, separating the grassland from the building. Bridges regularly allow crossing the river. An amazing place to see.

At the beginning of the th century Jean d'O assured the Construction, the particularity of the castle was to have been built in brick. Originally, 6 towers and a chapel were erected, but over time it underwent many changes. It is located on the Blaise valley.

The castle of Mémillon is a private estate of 50 hectares, comprising a building built in the second empire, a th and th century manor house and the remains of the castle of Saveuse of the th century. He is inhabited. You can visit it at Heritage days.

The large manor house of Blanville, in the forest of Saint-Luperce, is private and is not easily accessible. But behind wrought iron grids, the th century chateau redesigned in th century offers remarkable symmetry reminiscent of the Loire valley houses like Familial or Cheverny. The large park is also on the right and left by smaller buildings that have the same kind of architecture as the central building.

The fortress of Bois Ruffin, located in the countryside of the Beauce dunoise between Arrou and Chapelle-Royale, blends the defensive walls of the upper Middle Ages and the plush farmhouses of the modern era. The whole is a remarkable site of the Eure-et-Loir that is seen by far thanks to the big round tower that rises in the middle of the courtyard closed by a grid and surrounded by ditches filled with water. The fortress was classified as a historic monument in 1924.

The Sorel-Moussel castle is first of all impressive moat. When you arrive in front of the drawbridge, you can only stop to admire this building that it looks like built on a rocky piton. Then the two buildings reveal themselves, in red bricks. Between the two, an empty space, sometimes filled by a large white tent, links the two parts of the castle which, occupied by several royal families and the lords of the Thymerais, was destroyed at the time of the French Révolutionn.