Château de Montalifan or Montafilant

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château de Montafilant (or Montalifan), half a league north of Corseul (Côtes-d'Armor), occupies an egg-shaped knoll surrounded by steep valleys. Seat of a seigneury from the late 12th century, held by a cadet branch of the house of Dinan-Montafilan and then, through marriage alliances, by the barons of Laval, it was later joined to the barony of La Hunaudaye. Triangular in plan, it retained on its north curtain wall three cylindrical towers — including a better-preserved one at the north-west corner and a central tower pierced with very elongated arrow slits — as well as residential buildings set against this curtain wall and a remarkable masonry well near the west curtain wall. The main entrance, known as the Porte Chastelère, was protected by a drawbridge. Now in ruins, the site is in progressive decline, with parts of its structures collapsing every year.