Discovery of a castle ten centuries old

Name: Discovery of a castle ten centuries old
Start: 2022-09-18T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Château

Climb high and discover the remains of the castle.

Sunday 18 September 2022, 10:30, 14:00, 16:00Passed

Conditions

Free. Provide footwear suitable for walking. Go to the foot of the Chinese Tower, rue d'Ambrail.

©Yves Giraudon

Climb high and discover the remains of the castle.

From the Chinese Tower to the medieval ruins, more than ten centuries of history focus on the site of the castle, today an integral part of the urban landscape.
Perched on a sandstone hill overlooking the historic centre, the castle and its medieval garden as well as its park offer a vast space for relaxation, a place of tranquility much appreciated by city dwellers and tourists.

About the location

Château

Parc du Château, 88000 Épinal

Vosges
Grand Est

A first castle, which was part with Fontenoy-le-Château and Remiremont, of the first fortresses of the southern Vosges, was built on the site around the year 1000\. It was rebuilt by the bishop of Metz, Jacques de Lorraine, around the middle of the 13th century. Perched on a rocky ridge, it presents itself as a polygonal enclosure provided with a powerful residential keep and a large tank with filtering bodies. The remains of the seigneurial house, as well as other buildings (arsenal, captain’s house, oven, chapel, etc.) were discovered during the excavation of the castle during the 1980s. Enlarged and adapted to artillery by the dukes of Lorraine at the beginning of the sixteenth century, the castle was destroyed by the troops of Louis XIV in 1670\.
This medieval fortified complex has been listed as a Historical Monument since 1992.