Château de Tanay

En un regard

Le château en bref

The seigneury of Tanay belonged to Pierre and Ponce de Tanay in 1099. Remains of the 13th-century feudal castle survive, including arrow slits on the corner towers. The estate passed to Guichard d'Ars (1370), Henri de Gletteins, the Corant family (1402), then to François Varinier (1490), whose family modernised it over nearly a century. Georges Langlois, a councillor at the parlement, probably had the spiral staircase (dated 1636) and ornaments bearing his coat of arms made. The Châtillon and then the Janin families succeeded him, followed by the Cachet de Garnerans, who are said to have organised festivities celebrating the union of the Dombes with France in 1762. Having fallen into disuse in the 19th century, it was acquired and extensively restored by Marcel Fayolle in the mid-20th century (addition of crenellations, alteration of the roofs). It then served as a Rosicrucian centre, then as a guesthouse for eight years, before a change of ownership in 2021. It is private property and is not open to visitors.