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

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.

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From 02/09 to 22/09/2024 between 14 a.m. and 18 p.m.
Closed Wednesday and Saturday.
The ticket office closes 1 hour before the site closes.

From 19/10 to 03/11/2024, daily from 10 a.m. to 30 p.m.
The ticket office closes 1 hour before the site closes.