Château de Clisson

About

The château de Clisson is a former castle fort, ruined during the Revolution and then partially restored, whose remains stand on the French commune of Clisson in the Loire-Atlantique department, in the Pays de la Loire region, on a granite promontory overlooking the left bank of the Sèvre nantaise. Built by the powerful lords of Clisson from the 11th to the 15th century, this castle becomes a strategic and defensive point of the steps of Brittany, protecting the border of the Duchy of Brittany. The castle is then only a polygonal enclosure with defensive towers.

After the fall of the lords of Clisson, the castle became the property of the Dukes of Brittany and their descendants. The Duke Francis II of Brittany turned the castle into a real fortress with the addition of a second enclosure with numerous defensive towers covering the western part, more exposed. Deserted by its chestnuts in the middle of the eighteenth century, the castle was burned by the Republican troops during the Vendée War.

Long in ruins, it was restored from 1974 to 1975, from 1986 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1993. It has been classified as historical monuments since the...