Maine-et-Loire

Pays de la Loire

Château de Brissac

Left unfinished since the second duke abruptly stopped his father's building work in the early 17th century, Brissac pairs two medieval towers with a seven-story palace said to be the tallest château in France. This giant of Anjou, in the Loire Valley, keeps its painted and gilded ceilings, the…

Pays de la Loire

Château de Serrant

Two centuries of building, from 1539 to the 1710s, never broke Serrant's unity: the Bautru family faithfully extended the Brie family's Renaissance tufa facades, around medieval moats still in water. Spared by the French Revolution, this château in Anjou keeps the collections of its successive…