2024

GAYETTE DUNGEON

Castles to visit

This dungeon is one of the last vestiges of the feudal castle. It was built in the first half of the fifteenth by the Nesmond brothers. He rises on a slight eminence, on the edge of the stream the Drop of the Ré. Quadrangular shape is particularly high, since it has no less than five levels. Each was divided into two pieces that kept their chimney. The third floor is occupied by a first attic that gives access to the round road above the corbeaux à, which li the top of the dungeon. The second attic covered with the roof covered two watchtower located above the rectangular turrets. To the south of the dungeon came the th century buildings, which houses a apothicairerie where an interesting collection of pharmacy pots from the th to the th. This room was followed by the poor and sick room, which opened the chapel with a single nave with a flat bedside adorned with woodwork and stucco. Since the 1900 th century, Gayette has been increasing many buildings and in particular a wing in the extension of the th century, to the south-west of the dungeon, built around.

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