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Prunget Castle à Tendu dans l'Indre

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine défensif
Demeure seigneuriale
Donjons
Indre

Prunget Castle

    Prunget
    36200 Tendu
Crédit photo : Jean FAUCHEUX - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1900
2000
14 mars 1927
Registration for Historic Monuments
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Château de Prunget : inscription by order of 14 March 1927

Origin and history

The Château de Prunget is a historic monument located in the commune of Tendu, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. This castle, whose location is estimated to be satisfactory a priori (note 6/10), has been included in the inventory of Historic Monuments since 14 March 1927. Its official address, according to the Mérimée base, is the 5164 Prunget, 36200 Tendu, in the department of Indre (36), attached to the arrondissement of Châteauroux.

The information available on this castle remains limited, but its inscription in 1927 bears witness to its heritage importance. The data come mainly from the Merimée database and the Monumentum platform, without further details on its architecture, historical owners or original use. GPS location and administrative coordinates confirm its anchoring in the territory of Tendu, a rural municipality of the Centre-Val de Loire.

In this region, the castles of that time were often linked to local aristocracy or bourgeois families, playing an economic and social role in the surrounding countryside. Their preservation, like that of the Château de Prunget, reflects the desire to preserve a built heritage representative of regional historical dynamics. However, no source mentions any significant events or characters associated with this monument.

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