Skip to content
Chateaupedia

Château de Monismes

Monismes Castle

Bessines-sur-Gartempe

Visit

Hours to be confirmed

Book a visit

You are leaving for the château’s own website

See guided tours and skip-the-line tickets tooTickets via our partner GetYourGuide, affiliate link

Where
Bessines-sur-Gartempe

Hours and prices not verified at the source yet.Check on the official website

To make a day of it

Open within 20 km

Sleep nearby

This week in the agenda

Château de Monismes stands in Bessines-sur-Gartempe (Haute-Vienne), in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The building is registered as a historic monument (dating recorded in the Mérimée database: 15th century). Its opening hours and prices have not been verified at the source yet.

What the French Ministry of Culture records

La famille de Razes fit construire le château au milieu du 15e siècle. Il fut restauré en 1736 et une chapelle y fut bâtie en 1739. La terre et le château furent vendus à la Révolution. En 1860, les terres furent revendue au détail et le château démoli. Il en reste les vestiges d'une tour et les douves. Au début du 14e siècle, il comportait un corps de bâtiment central flanqué de deux tours circulaires, entouré de fossés de plan rectangulaire. Dans le fond des douves ont été trouvées des sculptures gothiques représentant des faces humaines et des animaux. Elles ornaient le rampant d'un mur-pignon. Deux anges portent un blason.

Extract from the official record PA00100526 · Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée database, Open Licence

Where this château is

Bessines-sur-Gartempe · Haute-Vienne · Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Map of the area around Château de Monismes

Loading the map…

This châteauChâteaux within 40 km

Address

87250 Bessines-sur-Gartempe

Directions open from wherever you are, by car or public transport.

Get directionsView on a map

2.9 / 5from 12 Google reviews

Heritage status
Registered historic monument (inscrit)
Mérimée record PA00100526
Period of construction
15th century

Base map © IGN, Géoplateforme

Get told when châteaux near you open

An email when châteaux in your departments announce a tour, an evening opening or one-off access. Never more than one a week.

Your departments

Pick up to three. You can change them at any time.

Something wrong here?

Tell us. Every report moves this entry up our verification queue.

Sources

Identity, location and official references from Wikidata and the Mérimée register.

Within an hour’s drive

The most visited in this department — Haute-Vienne

From the same period — 15e siècle

Do you run this château? Claim my château and improve this entry