Château de Pyrimont

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château de Pyrimont was built in 1835 for the Marquis de Sassenay, who had acquired asphalt mining concessions as early as 1831. An imposing bourgeois residence overlooking the Rhône, in the commune of Chanay in the Ain, it served as a summer residence and bears witness to the industrial era of asphalt extraction, whose ore helped pave the Champs-Élysées in Paris, among other uses. The decline of river trade after the opening of the Lyon–Geneva railway line in 1857 led to the closure of the factory in 1970; it was dismantled in 2015.