Château de la Motte-Glain

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Château de la Motte-Glain is a Louis XII style castle built near the commune of Chapelle-Glain, located in the French department of the Loire-Atlantique in the Pays de la Loire region, on the former border between the Duchy of Brittany and the Angevin country. Built on an ancient fortress of the sires of Rougé, it is the first of the three castles rebuilt by Pierre de Rohan-Gié. The Château de la Motte-Glain is the one that preserves the most a "medieval heritage" and a "Gothic finisher".

It is part of a framework of reconstructions undertaken at the end of the 15th century and at the beginning of the 16th century in the region of the Marches de Bretagne, which also sees the reconstruction of the Castle of Ancenis, and the construction of the Renaissance wing of the Castle of Châteaubriant. The castle underwent some transformations in the 17th and 18th centuries, after a change of ownership in 1635. Some parts of the castle, the entrance castle, the cellar, the ruins of the press, the chapel, the house, the roofs and the walls, have been listed as historical monuments since 7 January 1926, and have been classified since 6 July 1929.