CASTLE OF THE DUKES OF BOURBON - THE BADLY COIFFED
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Castle evoking the Bourbon family, with a palace on the first floor of the keep, offering a panoramic view of Moulins.
Witness to more than 600 years of history, it has known the best during the pomp of the Dukes of Bourbon when it was the proud keep of their immense ducal palace and the worst, with its two hundred years of imprisonment and when it was the German military prison under the yoke of the Gestapo and Militia during World War II. The visit begins with the prison part, visiting rooms, lawyers' office, court of the punished, exhibition on the years of prison and photos of Rene Jonard. The former men's courtyard and the former main building built by Anne de France, to approach the archaeological excavations and the important discoveries. On the first floor of the keep, models, various reproductions and the palace at the time of Anne de France. On the second floor, the bedroom of Duke Louis II of Bourbon and his chapel. On the top floor, two ancient rooms and two ancient cells. Then head for the curtain wall at the top of the Mal Coiffée, with the most beautiful view of Moulins and its surroundings. Don't forget the digital room "a day at the court of Anne de France". From morning to night, from getting up to dinner, follow her in different settings of her daily life. Alongside Anne, her daughter Suzanne, her minister and their anonymous servants, move from the bedroom to the reading room, then the banquet room, passing beforehand by an evocation of her gardens. Far from the frenzy of current events, immerse yourself in a rhythm of restraint as in the late 15th century.
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