France · 10th century
Château de Berzé-le-Châtel ranks #4,705 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #395 of the 787 mapped in France. Founded c. 1000, it is older than 91% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 192 atlas entries founded in the 10th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,035 times in the last 60 days, more than 51% of the atlas. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Lyon, 70 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
The Château de Berzé-le-Châtel, or also the fortress of Berzé-le-Châtel (French: Le château de Berzé ou forteresse de Berzé-le-Châtel), goes back to a castrum mentioned in 991 in a cartulary of Cluny Abbey. It belongs to the village of Berzé-le-Châtel in the French department of Saône-et-Loire in the large region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, merged in 2016. The castle consists of an inner castle and a lower castle with a total of 14 towers.
Machine-translated from “Burg Berzé-le-Châtel” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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