Castles in the Loire

Château
42470 Fourneaux

The Château de Sarron, formerly Les Forges, is a 14th century fortified house transformed into a marina in the 16th and 17th centuries, located in Fourneaux in the Loire, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Château de style néo-classique et palladien
42130 Boën-sur-Lignon

The Château de Chabert, now the Musée des Vignerons du Forez, is an 18th-century neoclassical building located in Boën-sur-Lignon, in the Loire, classified as a historical monument since 1943.

Château de style Classique
42700 Firminy

The Château des Bruneaux, built in the 18th century in Firminy in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, is a historic monument surrounded by a park and a witness mine, reflecting local industrial and architectural history.

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
42210 Bellegarde-en-Forez

The castle of Bellegarde-en-Forez, built between the 15th and 19th centuries, dominates the plain of Forez in the Loire. This monument combining Renaissance and medieval remains bears witness to the history of the local lords and the Counts of Forez.

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
42920 Chalmazel-Jeansagnière

Chalmazel Castle, a medieval fortress of the 13th and 16th centuries, dominates the Lignon Valley in Chalmazel-Jeansagnière, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Built as a stronghold of Forez, it combines defensive architecture and seigneurial heritage.

Château
42430 Saint-Just-en-Chevalet

Contenson Castle, built in the 19th century in Saint-Just-en-Chevalet (Loire), is a historical monument of Renaissance and Gothic style, built on the foundations of an ancient 16th century castle.

Château de style Renaissance
42160 Andrézieux-Bouthéon

The Château de Boutheon, located in Andrézieux-Bouthéon in the Loire, is an ancient medieval stronghold transformed into a Renaissance residence and then bourgeois, today a cultural and tourist site with museum, animal park and aquarium.

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
42240 Saint-Paul-en-Cornillon

The Château de Cornillon, built in the 11th century and renovated in the 17th century, dominates Saint-Paul-en-Cornillon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. This medieval monument, anchored in the rock, bears witness to the history of the seigneurial forest.