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Château de Couches

France

Heritage status
monument historique inscrit
Location
Couches
Coordinates
46.8629°, 4.58706°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Château de Couches in France
Photo: Bh.souzani · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Château de Couches is located in the commune of Couches in Saône-et-Loire, below the town, on a terrace overlooking the Creuse valley.

It is one of the former fortresses of the Duchy of Burgundy and notably protected the road leading from Paris to Chalon via Autun.

It is one of the fourteen exceptional sites open to the public that have been brought together for some twenty years in "La Route des châteaux en Bourgogne du Sud".

Machine-translated from “Château de Couches” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Château de Couches ranks #7,477 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #723 of the 954 mapped in France. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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