Château d'Ambérieux-en-Dombes

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The Château d'Ambérieux-en-Dombes is a former fortified castle, founded in the 12th century by the lords of Villars and rebuilt in the 14th century, standing in the commune of Ambérieux-en-Dombes in the Ain department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The castle was the centre of the seigneury of Ambérieux and the seat of a castellany of the Principality of Dombes. The castle's three towers were listed (classé) as historic monuments by decree of 21 June 1905. The south-east square tower and the plot on which it stands, the surviving curtain walls and their plot, excluding the church and the modern buildings, as well as the Montée Claude Donis, were registered (inscrit) as historic monuments by decree of 24 July 2019.