Guided tour of Durtal Castle

Name: Guided tour of Durtal Castle
Start: 2023-09-16T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: CHÂTEAU DE DURTAL

Guided tour every hour from 10:30 until 17:30 | Prices: 5.50 € adults and 3 € children (7-15 years)

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Entrance 5,50€/adult

Laura Bellanger

Guided tour every hour from 10:30 to 17:30 | Prices: 5.50€ adults and 3€ children (7-15 years)
The royal castle is a medieval building built in the days of the splendours of royalty, on a rocky peak overlooking the Loir Valley. Its current location was strategically chosen in 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 stately residence of the Middle Ages was transformed, gradually between the 15th and 17th centuries.
The castle of Durtal was a very important place, welcoming Henry II, Charles IX, Catherine de 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.