France · 13th century
The Château de Rapetour, sometimes spelt Raptour, is a 13th-century fortified house standing at the entrance to the village of Theizé, in the Beaujolais, in the Rhône department.
Machine-translated from “Château de Rapetour” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château de Rapetour ranks #8,725 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #790 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. 21 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Lyon, 26 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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