Château de Saint-Seine

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Le château en bref

The Château de Saint-Seine, in Saint-Seine-sur-Vingeanne (Côte-d'Or), is a recent building set within a medieval enclosure overlooking the Vingeanne valley, near the church. It belongs to a defensive network of three strongholds established by the Saint-Seine family in the Vingeanne valley from the 12th century onwards. A document from 1469 mentions 'three houses' in the area, then shared between the duke and several members of the Le Gouz de Saint-Seine family. In 1728, Benoît-Étienne Legouz sold the property to his cousin Bénigne-Germain Legouz, who acquired additional land to reconstitute the medieval seigneury; at the end of the 18th century, his son transformed the château, which has remained in the Le Gouz de Saint-Seine family ever since. The rectangular main building occupies the south side of the medieval enclosure, flanked by round corner towers; the north entrance opens through a monumental gateway with no trace of fortification, while the almost windowless north towers retain arrowslits and the south towers were altered later.