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Château de Bourbon

France · 10th century

Founded
c. 1000
Style
Medieval architecture
Heritage status
classified historical monument
Location
Bourbon-l'Archambault
Coordinates
46.5883°, 3.0585°
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Château de Bourbon in France
Photo: Pascal chevalier · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Château de Bourbon-l'Archambault is a former 13th-century fortified castle, altered several times, whose remains are located in Bourbon-l'Archambault in France. It is listed as a historic monument.

The lordship, and later duchy, of Bourbon gave its name to the province of Bourbonnais, which corresponds roughly to the present department of Allier and the southeast of the department of Cher.

Machine-translated from “Château de Bourbon-l'Archambault” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Château de Bourbon ranks #3,688 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #286 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 1,439 times in the last 60 days, more than 61% of the atlas. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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