Château de Fontenay
Fontenay Castle
Saint-Marcouf
Access
No visits on recordNo opening hours or ticketing found
- Where
- Saint-Marcouf
To make a day of it
Open within 20 km
Château de Fontenay stands in Saint-Marcouf (Manche), in the Normandie region of France. No visits are on record for this building.
The ruins of the château de Fontenay stand in Saint-Marcouf, in the Manche department, on the site of a residence built in the eighteenth century and destroyed during the fighting of 1944. Once nicknamed the Versailles of the Cotentin for its formal gardens and grand courtyard, the building was never rebuilt after the Second World War. A visit today means walking among remnants of a property that passed through several noble Norman families from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Written from Château de Fontenay (Saint-Marcouf)
What to know
- Only ruins remain, with no roofed building open to visitors.
- The site lies in open countryside, away from the village centre of Saint-Marcouf.
- No opening hours or admission fees are attached to this site, which is accessed outdoors.
- A visit amounts to walking among the remnants, with no known laid-out route.
- The surviving façades have been protected as a historic monument since 1930.
Where this château is
Saint-Marcouf · Manche · Normandie
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This châteauChâteaux within 40 km
Address
50310 Saint-Marcouf
Directions open from wherever you are, by car or public transport.
- Heritage status
- Protection status unknown
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Sources
Identity, location and official references from Wikidata and the Mérimée register.
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