Château de Corcelle

The Château de Corcelle is a castle located in the commune of Bourgvilain in Saône-et-Loire département of France, on a small plateau dominating the valley of the Valouze.

The buildings of the castle are ordered around a rectangular interior court and are connected by stretches of curtain walls; they are girded on three sides by partly filled-in moats. This quadrilateral is flanked by round towers on north east and south west corners. Against the eastern curtain wall, the principal main building is flanked on its eastern façade, opening onto the farmyard, by a small rectangular building. A cart gate under a semicircular arch next to a pedestrian door under a flat arch, give access to the farmyard.

The castle is private property and not open to the public. It has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

Text adapted from “Château de Corcelle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Château de Corcelle ranks #6,941 of 7,787 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #504 of the 516 mapped in France. Founded 1520, it is older than 44% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 720 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Lyon, 68 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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