Listed as a Historic Monument, the castle of Ancenis stands facing the Loire. The fortress is one of the strongholds of the Marches of Brittany.
Its strategic position exposes it to multiple offices between the 12th and 16th centuries. The entrance gatehouse, built at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 16th, presents a particular defensive device: a drawbridge precedes the portcullis, in a covered gallery, arranged in a chicane. The Renaissance lodge, a residential program initiated by the couple Claude Ier de Rieux and his wife Suzanne de Bourbon, was built around 1529. Its facade, on the courtyard side, offers a decoration of the first Renaissance, while the structure of the house remains Gothic.
Between 2013 and 2015, the Renaissance building of the castle was rehabilitated. This concerned both the consolidation of structures, the resumption of openings and sculptures.
Park with free access every day.
