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Angers Castle, also known as the Castle of the Dukes of Anjou, is located in the city of Angers, in the Maine-et-Loire department of France.
The site has been occupied since Antiquity owing to its particularly strategic defensive and offensive position. Subsequently, the counts of Anjou established their residences there, until the end of the Plantagenet empire, when the Kingdom of France conquered the County of Anjou. Louis IX had the present castle built in the 13th century, while the dukes of Anjou converted it into a seigneurial residence in the 15th century. Yolande of Aragon, mother-in-law of Charles VII, gave birth to René of Anjou there. In the 16th century, following the turmoil of the Wars of Religion, Henry III ordered the castle's destruction, but only the upper part of the towers was demolished. It was then converted into a prison, later into a garrison and munitions depot during the Second World War. Since 1954, it has housed the Apocalypse Tapestry and is one of the most visited tourist sites in Maine-et-Loire. Its opening to tourism is managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux.