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The Château de Dampierre (Aube) is for sale for just under €1.7 million. Its owner, Antoni Calmon, had invested €6 million in it since 2021.
ChâteauBurgundy-Franche-Comté
Doors from the old Russian embassy, a foyer from the Place des Victoires, marble troughs saved from a Paris store: Louis Brossard filled his château in Burgundy with the lost interiors of Haussmann's Paris. Over 35 years, this man of leisure from Beaune turned a winegrower's farm into a folly,…
ChâteauÎle-de-France
ChâteauProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Built in the late 15th century for the wedding of Delphine de Vachères and Pierre de Mathieu, viguier, or royal magistrate, of Forcalquier, Le Villard is a small four-towered château in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, sold only twice in five centuries. Turned into a farm after the Revolution and…
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The furniture and objects from this château in the Drôme department, in southeastern France, will be sold on-site by the auction house Aguttes. A unique chance to bring home a memento of a château you've seen in So Châteaux.
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One year after the fire of September 24, 2025, So Châteaux was able to enter the château de Médavy (Orne, in Normandy). Damage, lost artworks, repairs, and a gradual reopening from 2027 to 2029.
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For this 43rd edition, the Journées Européennes du Patrimoine are spotlighting photography and heritage at risk, with the watchwords revive, resist, and reimagine. Two themes that resonate with us: image and restoration.
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In the Dordogne, a department in southwestern France, at the heart of the forêt Barade, a large-scale agrivoltaic project is set to take shape just 700 meters from the historic monument currently under restoration...
ChâteauGrand Est
Designed in 1721 by Germain Boffrand, architect to the Duke of Lorraine, Vaux raises a Regency facade of pale Tonnerre stone in the southern Aube, crowned with carved children and unicorns. Home of Maupas, a minister of Napoleon III, it was abandoned on the eve of World War II, stripped of its…
ChâteauNouvelle-Aquitaine
When Nicolas de Laâge de Meux bought it in 2020, the Château de l'Herm, in the Dordogne, had stood without roofs or floors for nearly two centuries. Yet this Flamboyant Gothic house, built in a single campaign in the early 16th century, had kept the heart of its beauty: its entrance, its great…
ChâteauOccitania
Empty since 1787 and buried under 40,000 fallen tiles, Lantis survived two centuries because a farmer walled up its doors and windows during the Revolution. This small 17th-century military château, built between Cahors and Sarlat on the base of a 15th-century fortress, has kept its fireplaces,…
ChâteauNormandy
Few residences embody half-timbered Norman architecture as well as the manoir de Coupesarte, in the heart of the pays d'Auge. Its L-shaped buildings, bristling with corbeled corner turrets, are reflected in the water-filled moat. Once a farmhouse, the manor has become a precious testament to the…
ChâteauBrittany
The last and largest of the malouinières, the country houses built by the shipowners of Saint-Malo, Bonaban went up in 1777 for the Le Fer family on a rocky spur above the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel. A Carrara marble staircase and ceilings more than five meters (16 feet) high announced a fortune.…
ChâteauCentre-Val de Loire
A carved sea monster carrying a boat with the face of Poseidon, at the foot of the grand staircase, gave its nickname to the Château de La Borde, long famous among urban explorers. Built between 1860 and 1865 by the architect Alfred Dauvergne, this château in central France lines up a central block…
ChâteauÎle-de-France
Built in 1620, during the reign of Louis XIII, the hôtel Claude Passart stands at 4 rue Chapon, in the heart of the Marais. It is sometimes called the hôtel de Jean Bart, though the famous privateer never actually lived there. Built for a financier close to the halls of power, it illustrates the…
ChâteauNormandy
Built on the ruins of a medieval keep, then enlarged in the 18th century by Thiroux de Montregard, Médavy was home for three centuries to the Rouxel de Médavy family, who gave France two marshals. For some twenty years, Jean-Louis Charon and his wife have been restoring this château in the Orne, in…
ChâteauNouvelle-Aquitaine
Montastruc, from the Latin monte astrucus, is the hill under a lucky star: a rocky spur near Bergerac, lived on since antiquity, where caves sit beside a late 13th-century Gothic château and its Louis XV wing in Bordeaux-style stone. Its 1475 roof frame and 18th-century interiors have survived…
ChâteauNormandy
Three red ferns on a coat of arms: the Feugerets family took its name from a fern that still grows on its land, and scattered the plant all over its château. A castle in the Perche, in southern Normandy, built in the late Middle Ages, reworked in the Renaissance and again under Louis XIII, made a…
ChâteauAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Neither château nor convent, but a farm run by warrior monks: the Commanderie de Celles was given to the Knights Templar in 1213 by Dalmas de Celles, then held by the Knights of Malta until the Revolution. Set 880 meters (2,890 feet) up in the Cantal, around an 11th-century Romanesque church, it…
ChâteauGrand Est
A 17th-century residence attributed to François Mansart rises behind the gatehouse of a vanished fortress. Dampierre kept its grand staircase and vaulted medieval kitchen, even after its interiors were stripped in the 1930s. Bought at auction in 2021 by Antoni Calmon, a devoted doctor, this château…
