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Château de Menetou-Salon

France · 12th century

Founded
c. 1150
Architect
Ernest Sanson
Heritage status
monument historique inscrit
Location
Menetou-Salon
Coordinates
47.2349°, 2.4912°
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Château de Menetou-Salon in France
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Description

The Château de Menetou-Salon, located at 2, rue Prince Auguste d'Arenberg in Menetou-Salon (Cher), is a former 12th-century fortress entirely remodelled and enlarged in a neo-Gothic style in the 19th century by its owner Auguste d'Arenberg and by his architect Ernest Sanson to make it a residence.

This residence is a private property of which five rooms can be visited, as well as the chapel, the saddlery and the car collection.

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

In the rankings

Château de Menetou-Salon ranks #8,314 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #850 of the 954 mapped in France. Founded c. 1150, it is older than 80% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 810 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Orléans, 86 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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