Ancient games

Name: Ancient games
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Château La Grand'Cour

European Heritage Days 2023

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free access after the visit

Info@LaGrandCour.fr

Many old games, wooden, for children and adults, free access after the visit

Types d'événement

Atelier / Démonstration / Savoir-faire

Thèmes 2023

Patrimoine vivant

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Château La Grand'Cour

Route de Nevers, 18350 Mornay-Berry

Cher
Centre-Val de Loire

Built at the end of the 13th century, shortly before the Hundred Years' War, it is a rare yet demonstrative example of a "fortress-shell" with its polygonal enclosure and keep-door. Its water moat, its rocking bridge and its darkening illustrate its protective role of a small seigneury against the brigands and mercenaries of armies of all sides, whether French or English or Burgundian. In the fifteenth century a floor was added and a staircase had to be created, sheltered in a round turret supported by the initial massive keep: this exceptional juxtaposition is one of the architectural originalities of the site. In the center of the medieval clod, a farmhouse was built in the eighteenth century on the ruins of the manor house which had burned down in the sixteenth century. Today, its green setting and the pleasure of its gardens flowered with ancient roses, make it a place of tranquility conducive to games between the hedges or to romantic reverie in its alcoves of charmilles. The Gran