Drôme

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Château de Charmes

A thousand years of history, from the Clermonts to Imbert de Batarnay, adviser to kings from Louis XI to Francis I, had not prepared Charmes for twenty years of neglect, squatters and looting. A medieval keep in the hills of the Drôme, in southeastern France, it became a country house in the 17th…