Castles in the Deux-Sèvres

Château
79400 Saivres

The château de l'Herbaudière, built between the late 16th and early 17th centuries, is a Renaissance building located in Saivres, New Aquitaine, surrounded by quadrilateral communes.

Château
79210 Val-du-Mignon

The Château d'Olbreuse, located in Usseau, New Aquitaine, is a 11th century medieval castle (a supposed date), famous for its connection with Protestantism and Eléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse, known as the grandmother of Europe.

Château
79220 Sainte-Ouenne

The Château du Gazeau, built in the 15th century in Sainte-Ouenne (Deux-Sèvres), was a relay for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Today, partially in ruins, it preserves a chapel and a historic gallery.

Château de style Renaissance
79800 Souvigné

The castle of Reigné, built in the Middle Ages in Souvigné (Deux-Sèvres), is a historical monument in the shape of L, rebuilt in the 16th and 18th centuries, surrounded by commons and a dovecote.

Oiron

Oiron Castle, a Renaissance and classical building in Oiron, New Aquitaine, was built mainly by the Gouffier family. Ranked a historical monument in 1923, it now houses a collection of contemporary art in a preserved architectural setting, combining 16th century painted galleries and 17th century decorations.

Château
79330 Glénay

Glénay Castle, built between the late 15th and early 16th centuries in Glénay (Deux-Sèvres), is a rare testimony of medieval-Renaissance transition architecture, dominated by a polygonal tower unique in France.

Château
79600 Availles-Thouarsais

Piogé Castle, a medieval fortress from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, dominates Availles-Thouarsais in New Aquitaine. Its dungeon and ramparts bear witness to an evolutionary defensive architecture, marked by successive reconstructions after historical destruction.

Château
79410 Saint-Gelais

The Château de Saint-Gelais, built in the 16th century in Saint-Gelais, New Aquitaine, is a historic monument marked by remarkable reconstructions and architectural elements such as its skylights and its staircase.