Montaupin Castle

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Le château en bref

Montaupin Castle is an eighteenth-century château located south of the village of Oizé, in the historical region of Maine (today the department of Sarthe), some thirty kilometres south of Le Mans, France. The château was rebuilt at the end of the eighteenth century on the site of a former feudal castle dating from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The oldest part still visible today is a fifteenth-century turret. The rest of the building consists of structures erected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A few elements of the original construction survive: the turret, the two cellars and the crypt of the former chapel of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, all dating from the fifteenth century. A twin turret was destroyed at the beginning of the twentieth century; the building has undergone several alterations and architectural modifications. The estate is now listed among the built heritage to be protected, under Article L.151-19 of the French Urban Planning Code.