France · 13th century
The Château de Luynes is a castle located in Luynes, Indre-et-Loire, France. It is first a medieval fortress, built in the 13th century, on a rocky promontory, overlooking the Loire Valley.
Built as a medieval fortress in the 13th century, The castle is today a grand manor house on a rocky promontory overlooking the val de Loire, and has been subject to registration as an historical monument since July 17, 1926.
The entry in the Monuments historiques register, describes the castle as a quadrangular surface at the edge of a spur. The most important part of the defences is located on the West... four cylindrical towers which ... date from the 13th century and 15th century.
The castle was substantially rebuilt in the 15th century, the current windows replaced primitive arrow slits and the wall between the towers was perforated by mullioned windows, evidence then of building next to this part of the enclosure. The South curtain wall is today replaced by a terrace and an outer defensive wall with two small round towers can still be discerned. In the 17th century a pavilion, was constructed at the back of the Southeast Tower.
Text adapted from “Château de Luynes” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château de Luynes ranks #2,781 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #219 of the 793 mapped in France. Founded c. 1250, it is older than 67% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 1080 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,382 times in the last 60 days, more than 59% of the atlas. 10 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Tours, 10 km away. It is one of the 73 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Loire Valley. It is stop 14 of 32 on the Loire Valley château route, Angers to Orléans. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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