Château de Brûlon

Brûlon Castle

Brûlon

Access

No visits on recordNo opening hours or ticketing found

Where: Brûlon

To make a day of it

Open within 20 km

Château de Brûlon stands in Brûlon (Sarthe), in the Pays de la Loire region of France. The building is registered as a historic monument (dating recorded in the Mérimée database: Gallo-romain, Middle Ages). No visits are on record for this building.

In Brûlon, what is called a castle is today a levelled plateau at the top of the town, the remains of a feudal mound occupied from Gallo-Roman times through the end of the Middle Ages. Excavations uncovered an early medieval necropolis and Gallo-Roman remains, though no old structure still stands, the last house on the site having disappeared in the 20th century. Visitors mainly come for the history of the place, explained on an information panel, and for the replica of a Chappe telegraph mast recalling a scientific experiment carried out here in the late 18th century.

Written from Château de Brûlon

What to know

No ancient building remains visible, only a levelled plateau and an information panel.
The site appears to be freely accessible as a public open space by the street, with no known opening hours.
A parking area is located west of the mound, at the corner of rue du Pavé and rue de la Douve.
A visit mainly involves reading the historical panel and viewing the replica telegraph mast.
The ground is flat and levelled, with no particular access difficulty related to terrain.