Self-guided tour

Name: Self-guided tour
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Château de Forges

Free and commented visit every hour of the Corps de Garde, chapel, high and low court.

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Château de Forges

Free visit and commented every hour of the Corps de Garde, chapel, upper and lower courtyard.

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Visite commentée / Conférence

Thèmes 2023

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Château de Forges

Chateau de Forges, Forges, 36300 Concremiers

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Centre-Val de Loire

Medieval castle on the edge of the Anglin. This complex is composed of ten towers, a keep, a dwelling, a chapel and a guardhouse. It is fortified by letter patent of Charles VII to his butler Jean de Poix. His descendant lives in it today. This fortress, which is cited at the beginning of the fourteenth century, has kept its feudal character. Located on a hill overlooking the left bank of the Anglin, it was part of a line of castles protecting the southern limit of the Berry. Square keep, flanked at the corners of four round towers and surrounded by three sides of walls on which rest five towers pierced by arches, one of which constitutes the dovecote. The enclosure is penetrated from the south between two towers connected to the upper part by a track overhanging a machicolation apparatus. In the inner courtyard are the quadrilobed keep and, leaning on the southern side of the enclosure, the guard building. To the east, the stables, the cellar and the chapel castrale. In the middle of