Castles in the Loire

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
42210 Montrond-les-Bains

Montrond-le-Fort Castle, built on a volcanic dyke in Montrond-les-Bains (Loire), is a feudal castle transformed in the Renaissance, today in partially rebuilt ruins.

Château fort
42170 Chambles

The castle of Essalois, built mainly in 1580, dominates the lake of Grangent in Chambles (Loire). This castle, rebuilt in the 19th and 20th centuries, bears witness to a Gallic and medieval strategic occupation in Forez.

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 fort
42170 Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert

The castle of Grangent, built in the 12th century, is a castle located on an island of Lake Grangent, in Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert, in the Loire. Isolated by the 1957 dam, it bears witness to a turbulent medieval history.

42800 Sainte-Croix-en-Jarez

The Chartreuse de Sainte-Croix-en-Jarez, founded in 1281 in Sainte-Croix-en-Jarez (Loire), is a former Cartreux monastery transformed into a village after the Revolution. Unique of its kind, this medieval site combines religious heritage and communal life in the Pilat Natural Park.

Château de style Classique
42330 Saint-Bonnet-les-Oules

The Château de Saint-Bonnet-les-Oules, built in the 17th and 19th centuries, is a historical monument located in the Loire, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, combining Renaissance architecture and neo-Gothic restorations.

Château de style Renaissance
42130 Saint-Étienne-le-Molard

The château de la Bastie d'Urfé, the Renaissance jewel of the 15th–15th centuries in Saint-Étienne-le-Molard (Loire), combines Italian architecture and literary history with L'Astrée d'Honoré d'Urfé.

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.