Palaces, Villas and Castles

Château de Boissières

Château de Boissières was built around 1577.The first building of the twelfth century consists only of a high quadrangular tower, northeast, without foundation, overlooking a moat fed by Cheran. The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, a second square tower of three floors, is attached to the first between which is built a spiral staircase turret. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a full house all becomes a fortified house, on a rectangular plan, with at least one round tower was later turned into bread oven. The materials are blue sandstone Craon, the Speckled and shale. Successive openings and the construction of a high chimney into the house changed sections of walls. The castle was occupied a few years by the English during the Hundred Years War. Restored in 1362 the Treaty of Brétigny, it is then for military families to the Revolution. This castle is private property

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