THE CASTLE OF AUBELLES
It was the summer residence of the counts of Sancerre. Since the twelfth century, they have been succeeding in this process - a period that has lived through its construction - until the time of the Hundred Years War, where it was abandoned. A century therefore lives her joyous, alive and inhabited. If it bears the name of the Aubelles Castle, it was built on a ground of illumination as the only Loire knows the charrier where the aubeers were without obstacles, an arm of the fortifying river. The decay that helped, this fortress whose walls were protected by water flowing from the Vauvise, small river from the corner taking its source at Nerondes and pouring into the waters of La Sauvage in Saint-Satur, became a farm in the nineteenth century. It has to be said that the place was gibble, which did not dislike the masters of the time, the ripples of first, among others. The softness of the sun-bathed Sancherise hills in the sunny days is still not lacking, so you can easily imagine what the top of the castle should be. We imagine… because these days, these are only ruins, remnants of the past allowing to go through the polygonal compound of 14 sides, let! An immutable base and of the walls adorned with elements such as frying, shredded windows, shaped berries, architectural capitals, witnesses of a past world and this ensemble remains exceptional in the Berry. It is said that the enclosure would be inspired by the great fortifications of the time of Philippe Auguste. Who knows?
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