Castles in France

The hunting lodge of Louis XIII. was located in Versailles, a small suburb of Paris. In the period from 1677 until the outbreak of the French Revolution,...

The Palais Longchamp includes the Museum of the fine arts called “Musée des Beaux-Arts”, the Museum of Natural History (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle), an observatory and a botanical...

The city of Saint-Malo rears its head proudly at the north of the Breton coast . The fortress walls of the most important harbor of the region have a...

The Chateau de Fougères is a castle in the commune of Fougères in the Ille-et-Vilaine département of France. The first protection systems of the castle...

Whilst starting your journey in the west of the Loire river you will reach the Château des ducs de Bretagne (Castle of the Dukes of Brittany) near Nantes first. It was the...

The castle of Peyrepertuse was first mentioned in 1070, but was supposedly already inhabited by the Romans, so about 1 century before Christ. The fortress,...