France · 13th century
The Château des Tourelles is a castle in the commune of Vernon in the Eure département of France.
The castle originated in 1196, when Philippe Auguste (Philip II of France), fighting against the king of England, Richard the Lionheart, for possession of Normandy, seized Vernon and made the town a military base.
The castle consists of a square tower surrounded by four round turrets, the whole edifice rising to a height of twenty metres.
It is one of the few castles in France which has been practically unchanged for 800 years. The property of the commune since 1955, it has been listed since 1945 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.
Text adapted from “Château des Tourelles” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château des Tourelles ranks #3,397 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #260 of the 787 mapped in France. Founded c. 1250, it is older than 67% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1090 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,326 times in the last 60 days, more than 58% of the atlas. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Évreux, 26 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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