When was Menthon Castle built?

The castle dates from the early eighteenth century. Its chapel was constructed in 1728, and significant interior decorative work was added around 1830.

What can be visited at Menthon Castle?

The castle and its outbuildings are protected as historical monuments, covering the main residence, chapel, dovecote, courtyard with its sculptural niche, and the gardens and parkland.

What architectural style does this castle represent?

It exemplifies the common domestic architecture of the eighteenth-century Jura, combining a main residence, integrated chapel, service buildings, a formal courtyard, and parkland.

Château de Menthon

Menthon Castle

Choisey

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Where: Choisey

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Château de Menthon stands in Choisey (Jura), in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France. The building is listed as a historic monument (dating recorded in the Mérimée database: first half of the 18th century). The building is privately owned and no visits are on record.

Menthon Castle, built in the early eighteenth century in Choisey in the Jura region, exemplifies the classical residential architecture typical of the area. Constructed around a main residence that incorporates a chapel added in 1728, the château retains its original features: outbuildings, dovecote, and gardens and parkland that evolved from the eighteenth through nineteenth centuries. Interior modifications undertaken from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, and again around 1830, enriched its decoration while maintaining its original framework.

What to know

The castle has been protected as a historical monument since 1993; the classification covers the main residence, outbuildings, dovecote, courtyard and its sculptural elements, and the gardens and parkland in their entirety.
The building's interior retains transformations spanning more than a century: restructuring from the mid-eighteenth century and decorative work added around 1830.
The site contains all the constituent elements of an eighteenth-century Jura seignorial residence: main house, chapel, formal courtyard, lower courtyard with dovecote, and formal gardens extending into parkland.

Where this château is

Choisey · Jura · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

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Address

22 Rue d'Aval, 39100 Choisey

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Château phone number

+33 6 11 71 99 21

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Heritage status: Listed historic monument (classé); Mérimée record PA00101832
Period of construction: first half of the 18th century

Frequently asked

When was Menthon Castle built?: The castle dates from the early eighteenth century. Its chapel was constructed in 1728, and significant interior decorative work was added around 1830.
What can be visited at Menthon Castle?: The castle and its outbuildings are protected as historical monuments, covering the main residence, chapel, dovecote, courtyard with its sculptural niche, and the gardens and parkland.
What architectural style does this castle represent?: It exemplifies the common domestic architecture of the eighteenth-century Jura, combining a main residence, integrated chapel, service buildings, a formal courtyard, and parkland.