Château Fort de la Fée Mélusine et son parc de loisirs médiéval à St-Jean-d’Angle

Welcome to the Middle Ages!
Awaken the knight who is in you or the princess you dreamed of being and for more than 3 hours share unforgettable moments with your family.

With its walls 20 meters high and its construction in an English-style circle, unique in France at the time, the Lord Lusignan offers an unobstructed view of an ocean of marshes! Designed on the model of the 'shell-keep' - literally dungeon-shell, the castle is defined by a set located on a reconstituted mound, surrounded by moats and formed by a circular curtain wall containing residential buildings arranged around a central courtyard . Two towers flank the rampart and the whole is very well designed for both passive and active defense.

At the beginning of the XNUMXth century, Louis's daughter, Charlotte Saint-Gelais de Lusignan, restored the castle damaged by successive musketry attacks. She replaced the drawbridge with a dormant stone bridge, opened large windows and, the height of modernism, had latrines built. A French garden completes the transformation. The medieval fortress becomes a pleasant residence where meets the nobility of the surroundings.

In December 1994, Alain Rousselot acquired it with the firm intention of renovating it. Once the vegetation is removed, the inventory is disastrous. Significant work, undertaken in collaboration with the Monuments of France, will last from January 1995 to the year 2000. No less than 76 liters of water mixed with lime are poured into the smallest hollows of the rampart. A colossal job is done, saving the castle in extremis.

Nouvelle activité : Les Apiers d'Aliénor vous proposent des animations pour la famille autour des abeilles avec des visites immersives au coeur d'une colonie en tenue d'apiculteur, suivie d'une dégustation de miel. Informations, dates et réservation via ce lien : www.lesapiersdalienor.fr/animations-visites-en-tenue-d-apiculteur/

Services for children :
The castle offers children various activities in its visit route: loan of costume, puzzle games, old wooden games, an archery stand, a labyrinth, two sensory routes, an orientation course.

We speak: English, Spanish

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