Chateau d'Audour

Dompierre-les-Ormes

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Where: Dompierre-les-Ormes

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Château d'Audour stands in Dompierre-les-Ormes (Saône-et-Loire), in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France. The building is registered as a historic monument (dating recorded in the Mérimée database: second quarter of the 18th century). No visits are on record for this building.

Audour castle stands in the commune of Dompierre-les-Ormes, in Saône-et-Loire, a rectangular building flanked by two wings and a square tower overlooking a former ornamental pond. Its present appearance dates from a rebuilding carried out in 1775 under the architect Jean-Pierre Caristie, on a site occupied since the 13th century. Alphonse de Lamartine, who knew the estate well, left a literary description comparing its park to a Scottish landscape. The castle is now privately owned and is not open to visitors.

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What to know

The castle is not open to visitors, as it remains in private hands and is maintained by its owners.
Only the facades and roofs are protected as a listed historic monument, by an inscription dated 27 October 1971.
The park, laid out by botanist Philippe de Vilmorin, lies on private land and is not open to the public.
There is no regular public access, a single open day having taken place in 1995.
The building can be seen from the public road in Dompierre-les-Ormes, but the interior and close surroundings are off limits.