Château de la Griffonnière

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Le château en bref

The Château de la Griffonnière is located in Bâgé-la-Ville, a commune déléguée of Bâgé-Dommartin, in the Bresse countryside near the Saône and Burgundy. It is one of the three châteaux of the former commune. Built in red brick, a material typical of Bresse, it dates back at least to the sixteenth century and was partly rebuilt in the nineteenth century. The main building forms a rectangular body flanked at each corner by an octagonal tower. A hexagonal tower houses the spiral staircase on the east façade. The château is privately owned and is not open to visitors as a monument. Its owners do, however, offer tourist accommodation, listed by the departmental tourist office. The accessible sources do not document the seigneurial families linked to the estate nor its major historical stages. It should not be confused with the motte castrale de la Griffonnière at Villemotier.