Guided tour of the Castle of Sigournais

Name: Visite guidée du Château de Sigournais
Start: 2022-09-17T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Château féodal

Magnificent keep-door with panoramic view, best example of the military architecture of the Middle Ages in Vendée.

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17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

Rebuilt in the fifteenth century on the bases of a castle built around the year Mil, with its ditches, its polygonal enclosure, its towers, its complete and completely covered walkway on machicolations, its typical gun arches, its original frame, the feudal castle of Sigournais is one of the best examples of military architecture of the Middle Ages in the Vendée. A mock-up exhibition on Middle Ages war machines.

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Château féodal

Rue du Donjon, 85110 Sigournais

Vendée
Pays de la Loire

Altered in the XVth century on the basis of a castle built at about the year ten hundred, with its ditches(gaps), its polygonal surrounding wall(speaker), its tours(ballots), its path round the battlements entirely covered with machicolation, its typical archères-popguns, its original skeleton, its latrines the feudal castle of Sigournais establishes(constitutes) one of the best examples of military architecture of the Middle Ages in Vendée.