Castles in the Ain

Château de plaisance
01140 Saint-Etienne-sur-Chalaronne

Beaumont Castle, built in the 19th century in Saint-Étienne-sur-Chalaronne (Ain), replaces an ancient medieval castle. This monument combines neo-regionalist architecture and historical remains as a 14th century castral motte.

Château fort
01500 Ambérieu-en-Bugey

The castle of Allymes, a former 14th century castle transformed in the 16th and 19th centuries, dominates Ambérieu-en-Bugey (Ain) from a rocky spur at 650 m altitude. Ranked a historical monument, it illustrates medieval and renaissance military architecture in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
01090 Montceaux

The Château de la Bâtie à Montceaux, a former castle of the 13th, 16th and 19th centuries, stands in the Ain in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. A fortress in red bricks, it was a strategic place between Kingdom and Empire.

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
01240 Saint-Paul-de-Varax

The castle of Varax, an ancient castle of the 14th to 15th centuries, stands in Saint-Paul-de-Varax in the Ain, in the heart of the ponds of the Dombes. Ruined in the 16th century, it was redesigned after successive destructions and preserves a medieval castral motte.

Château fort
01500 Saint-Denis-en-Bugey

The castle of Saint-Denis-en-Bugey, a former 13th century castle, dominates the municipality of the same name in the Ain. It remains mainly a restored square dungeon, classified as a historical monument in 1899.

Château
01440 Viriat

The castle of Fleyriat, located in Viriat in the Ain, is a 18th and 19th century building, combining agricultural farm and neo-Renaissance castle, surrounded by an English landscaped park.

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
01370 Meillonnas

The castle of Meillonnas, a former 14th century castle rebuilt in the 16th, 18th and 19th centuries, stands in Meillonnas in the Ain, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It was the centre of a seigneury and houses medieval and renaissance remains, including murals from the 15th to the 16th centuries.

Château fort
01420 Chanay

The castle of Dorches, built in the 12th century in Chanay in the Ain, is an ancient castle of which remains only ruins. It dominated the Dorches waterfall and was an important seigneurial centre in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.