Free visits to the Chateau de Châteaubriant
Medieval fortress and Renaissance building, the castle of Châteaubriant tells ten centuries of history.
17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé
© Paul Pascal - Département de Loire-Atlantique
Free visits and spontaneous mediation from 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 6pm
- The chapel: The chapel of the castle of Châteaubriant, excavated between 2004 and 2007, reveals successive buildings allowing to understand its evolution from the 11th century to the present day. Exceptionally open in open access, a mediator-mediator gives you the keys to decipher its construction, its evolution and its decorations.
- The golden room: Discover the decors of Françoise de Foix’s room. The epitaph of Françoise de Foix is preserved and a multimedia cabinet presents the history and legend of Françoise de Foix as well as the restoration of the golden room in the 1990s.
Exhibition In the ink of dreams: The visitor is transported in an immersive installation, a world of dreams: in her reading room, Françoise de Dinan slumbered while reading a manuscript. On the writing board, a bottle has spilled: black ink flows gently on the floor. Françoise de Dinan dreams …
Medieval fortress and Renaissance building, the castle of Châteaubriant tells ten centuries of history.
Around 1050, Lord Brient erected a first castle on this rocky promontory. From 1490, Françoise de Dinan, governess of Anne de Bretagne, then Jean de Laval invested the castle’s old farmyard to build a Renaissance residence and develop gardens.