France · 16th century
La Possonnière Castle (French: Château de la Possonnière), also called Château de Ronsard, belongs to the French commune of Vallée-de-Ronsard in the Loir-et-Cher department. It is one of the smaller châteaux of the Loire and has been protected as a monument historique since as early as 1862.
Machine-translated from “Schloss La Possonnière” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
La Possonnière Castle ranks #4,219 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #340 of the 787 mapped in France. Founded c. 1550, it is older than 36% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 886 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 989 times in the last 60 days, more than 50% of the atlas. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Tours, 39 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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