Château de Lys-Saint-Georges

Lys-Saint-Georges Castle

Lys-Saint-Georges

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Where: Lys-Saint-Georges

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Château de Lys-Saint-Georges stands in Lys-Saint-Georges (Indre), in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. The building is registered as a historic monument (dating recorded in the Mérimée database: 14th century, 15th century). Its opening hours and prices have not been verified at the source yet.

Perched on a rocky spur above the Gourdon valley, the château de Lys-Saint-Georges combines an oval twelfth-century keep, still surrounded by water-filled moats, with a residential wing built from the fourteenth century onward. Visitors come mainly for this fortress-like keep, pierced with arrow slits and once equipped with a drawbridge, and for the flamboyant carvings on the fifteenth-century living quarters. The site's history is tied to Jacques Cœur and later to Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, who was held prisoner here in the early sixteenth century.

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What to know

The site stands on a rocky spur that is difficult to approach, reachable from only one side.
The château is a listed historic monument, with the protection extended in 2022 to cover the whole castral site.
The facades and roofs of the residential wing were altered during a nineteenth-century restoration led by architect Alfred Dauvergne.
No verified information on opening hours, prices or accessibility is available here.