France · 15th century
The Château des Milandes is a manor house in the commune of Castelnaud-la-Chapelle in the Dordogne département of France. Built by François de Caumont around 1489, it was, until 1535, the main house of the lords of Caumont, who preferred to live in this manor house instead of the large, uncomfortable medieval castle of Château de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle.
In 1940, the entertainer Josephine Baker rented the château, and moved there after the German invasion of Paris in 1941, using it as a centre for resistance activity. In 1947 she bought the château.
It has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1986.
Text adapted from “Château des Milandes” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château des Milandes ranks #811 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #75 of the 793 mapped in France. Founded 1489, it is older than 44% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 554 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 11,760 times in the last 60 days, more than 95% of the atlas. 13 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 45 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Dordogne. It is stop 17 of 29 on the Dordogne castle route, Bergerac to Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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