Château de Montgon

En un regard

Le château en bref

Above the hamlet of Montgon and the Violette valley, in the commune of Grenier-Montgon, stand the ruins of a fortified manor house rather than a true stronghold. It was built in the late 14th and early 15th centuries by the younger branch of the Léotoing-Montgon family, who thus controlled passage through the valley; the enceinte was not built until the 16th century, after the residential building and the keep. The site retains a round residential tower containing small vaulted rooms, two underground chambers, one of which is cut into the rock, as well as an outer enclosure punctuated by semicircular towers and ending to the north-east in a round tower. Inhabited until the end of the 16th century, the château was abandoned after being plundered, and its stones were later salvaged in the 19th century. Bought back in 1969 by a private individual, it has been leased since 1996 to a heritage preservation association, which carries out its consolidation and partial restoration.