Chateau de Bagneux

The Chateau of Bagneux at Bournan is a fortress style chateau, constructed between the 13th to 15th centuries, and allied to the Chateau of Sainte Maure.

The footprint is a square with towers at each corner. Two have been truncated and two have been given conical slate pepper pot roofs sometime after the 15th century and retain their defensive machicolations.  From the towers you can see the neighbouring fortresses, and communicate as far as Loches by lighting signal fires. Its mullioned windows in the towers and facade show the later transition from its military use to a leisure retreat.

In 1912 the chateau was used in the finale of the annual military manoeuvres, with the President of France and the Arch Duke of Russia present.

The chateau is privately owned and not open to visitors.

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