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Château de La Ferté-Imbault

France

Heritage status
monument historique inscrit
Location
La Ferté-Imbault
Coordinates
47.38773°, 1.95744°
Links
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Château de La Ferté-Imbault in France
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Description

The Château de La Ferté-Imbault (Loir-et-Cher) is a stately home in the Loire Valley, France. A fortress of the Middle Ages rebuilt during the Renaissance, it is the largest brick château in Sologne, and one of the oldest. It was the family seat of the House of Estampes for four centuries.

The seigneurie (lordship) of La Ferté-Imbault was the largest in the south of Sologne, whose lands included the parishes of Salbris, Saint-Genou (now Selles-Saint-Denis), Marcilly, Loreux and Souesmes. It comprised more than one hundred farms spread over tens of thousands of hectares, stretching from Loreux to Souesmes and from Saint-Viâtre to Theillay.

The château is a large "rectangular building, with large and fine windows, and flanked by four towers [...]; shrubberies and alleys of mature trees lend an air of grandeur and poetry that strikes both the heart and the imagination". Its position "is quite pleasant and joyful, in a place where the Sauldre divides into several channels ... The red turrets of the château rise amid these waters and this greenery, and crown marvellously the rich picture".

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

In the rankings

Château de La Ferté-Imbault ranks #6,809 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #622 of the 954 mapped in France. The nearest day-trip guide is Blois, 53 km away. It is one of the 87 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Loire Valley. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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