The castle of Pornic And the city was… Although privately owned, the castle, with its millenary foundations, is intimately linked to Pornic.
Born from a simple dungeon built on a rocky spur in the middle of the 10th century, Pornic Castle, with elegant turrets and racé dungeons, has nothing to do with the original rustic building. Overlooking the entrance of the port, it is as much a remarkable building inscribed in the Supplementary Inventory of Historical Monuments, as a bitter for sailors and the emblem of the city. However, it almost disappeared from the landscape during the 19th century. Built at the confluence of the rivers of Haute-Perche and Cracaud, the fortress has long had a purely defensive vocation. From 1250, the building became a real castle with dungeons, high walls and drawbridge, is the residence of the lords of Rais. The most famous of them, the sinister Gilles who was Joan of Arc’s comrade-in-arms, did not live there. It is this glorious period of his life that evok

Monument historique, Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir

2 rue Fernand de Mun and place du château