Castle
Château des Tourelles
🇫🇷 France
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.
Text adapted from “Château des Tourelles” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château des Tourelles ranks #2,648 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #202 of the 276 mapped in France. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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