Durtal Castle

Name: Castillo de Durtal
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: CHÂTEAU DE DURTAL

Come and visit this medieval building built at the time of the splendors of royalty.

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

Laura Bellanger

Its current location has been strategically chosen since the 11th century by Foulques Nerra and Geoffroy de Martel, lords of Anjou, in order to protect the city of Angers.
The construction of this imposing seigneurial residence of the Middle Ages was transformed, little by little between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The castle of Durtal was a very important place, welcoming Henry II, Charles IX, Catherine of Medici and Louis XIII.
This historic Angevin building is today the result of a beautiful architectural harmony between the medieval and Renaissance styles.

About the location

CHÂTEAU DE DURTAL

15, place des Terrasses

Maine-et-Loire
Pays de la Loire

Architectural synthesis from the end of the Middle Ages to the end of the Renaissance. Founded by the Count of Anjou Geoffroy Martel in the 11th century, the Château de Durtal was rebuilt from the 15th, and the work continued during the 16th and 17th centuries. The current building makes coexist two towers of the old castle, contemporary of Langeais and of an aesthetic still very medieval (machicoulis, roofs with peppers, gothic dormer, alternate apparatus of schist and limestone) with a building body representative of the different tendencies of the Renaissance: elevation, still very vertical of the south gallery of the court; very orthogonal ordinances of the exterior facades.