France · 13th century
The ruin of the Chateau de la Hunaudaye stands in the territory of the French municipality of Plédéliac in the Breton département of Côtes-d'Armor. It can be visited for a fee from the beginning of April to the beginning of November.
The castle was built in the 13th century by followers of the Duke of Brittany to secure the border. After it was destroyed in 1341 during the Breton War of Succession, Pierre Tournemine began its reconstruction at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century. During the Renaissance the residential building of the castle (logis) was adapted to higher standards of living comfort, before the complex was plundered and stripped during the French Revolution.
Since 18 February 1922 the ruin has been protected as a monument historique. On 27 November 1930 the entire castle area was added to the list of classified monuments.
Machine-translated from “Burg La Hunaudaye” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chateau de la Hunaudaye ranks #4,285 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #349 of the 787 mapped in France. Founded c. 1250, it is older than 67% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1090 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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