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Château de Roussillon

France

Architect
Sebastiano Serlio
Heritage status
monument historique inscrit · classified historical monument
Location
Roussillon
Coordinates
45.3734°, 4.81147°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Château de Roussillon in France
Photo: GAllegre · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Château de Roussillon is a pleasure château, rebuilt in 1552 in a Renaissance style, which stands in the commune of Roussillon in the department of Isère in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. This building is the only château in the Renaissance style in the department. Since 1872, and after numerous renovations, the château has housed the commune's town hall. More recently, the Roussillon tourist office has also made a place for itself on the ground floor in the west wing of this building. Nowadays the whole château can be visited. It is thus possible to discover the cardinal's apartments located on the second floor of the new château.

The façades and roofs, the west wing in its entirety, the whole of the interiors of the second floor and the staircase with an openwork core wall of the central block were listed as historic monuments by decree of 14 November 1997. The ground floor and the first floor, with the exception of the listed parts, were partially registered as historic monuments by decree of 14 November 1997.

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

In the rankings

Château de Roussillon ranks #8,339 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #854 of the 954 mapped in France. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Lyon, 44 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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