France · 13th century
The Château de Bagnols is a former 13th-century castle, extensively remodelled in the 15th and 18th centuries, which stands in the commune of Bagnols in the Rhône department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Built in the heart of the pays des pierres dorées, it is surrounded by vineyards and today houses a luxury hotel. As a historic monument, the castle apart from its classified parts was listed by an order of 7 June 1926; the dovecote, the moats and the terraces with their two loggias were listed by an order of 3 September 1974; and the façades and roofs of the castle, the outbuildings, the curtain towers and the pavilions, together with the following rooms and their decoration — the guard room, dining room and music room on the ground floor, the billiard room and the Louis XV bedroom on the first floor, and two rooms in the west and south-east towers respectively — as well as the curtain wall, the retaining walls of the terraces and those of the moats, and the bridges over the moats, were classified by an order of 21 December 1984.
Machine-translated from “Château de Bagnols” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château de Bagnols ranks #8,400 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #783 of the 793 mapped in France. Founded c. 1250, it is older than 67% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1080 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 24 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Lyon, 24 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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