France · 15th century
Château du Moulin belongs to the French commune of Lassay-sur-Croisne in the department of Loir-et-Cher in the Centre-Val de Loire region. The free-standing, rectangular moated château, whose broad moats are fed by a tributary of the Croisne, was built between 1480 and 1500 by the court architect Jacques de Persigny and comprehensively restored in 1947. After it had been entered in the register of monuments in January 1926 (French: inscrit), classification (French classé) as a Monument historique followed on 27 April 1927.
Machine-translated from “Schloss Le Moulin” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château du Moulin ranks #4,441 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #369 of the 787 mapped in France. Founded 1480, it is older than 44% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 556 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Blois, 33 km away. It is one of the 73 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Loire Valley. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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