Castles to visit Val-D'Oise

On a walk in the Domaine de la Chasse, we will put our steps in the medieval kings, the soldiers of the Hundred Years War, and then in Victor Hugo or Jean-Jacques Rousseau that this romantic place in nature inspired. Built probably in the xiith century, the castle was frequented by the kings of France, who found there a stop during their hunts in the forest of Montmorency. The taste for hunting stayed in the region, but from François I it is the much more luxurious Listener castle that the Court will stop. The fortified castle also lives in wars, a place of garrison during one Hundred Years, weapons deposited with the Revolution. Its charming silhouette that is reflected in the water has preserved its original structure: thick walls and four towers of angles. They, strangely truncated in the eighteenth century, give him this original charm. The monument is magnified by a natural site with enchanting ponds, secular trees and renowned wildlife. Listed in the inventory of Historic Monuments as early as 1933, the castle was acquired by the state in the 1970 s. For younger people, a passage in the field is instructive, as two pedagogical trails pass through it. A great idea for a Sunday trip.