En un regard
Le château en bref
Montrésor Castle is located in the south-east of the Indre-et-Loire department (37), in France, some fifteen kilometres east of the town of Loches, in the commune of Montrésor.
A rocky spur successively hosted a keep attributed to Fulk Nerra and incorporated into the defensive system of the Counts of Anjou in Touraine, a medieval fortress built by Jean IV de Bueil, Grand Master of the Crossbowmen of France, and then a Renaissance residence built by Imbert de Batarnay, an influential figure at the courts of four kings of France. After the Revolutionary period, during which the castle, poorly maintained, passed through the hands of several successive owners, Count Xavier Branicki, a Polish émigré, patron of the arts and mayor of Montrésor from 1860 to 1870, bought the estate in 1849, repaired some parts of the castle and rebuilt others; he furnished the main residence in the Second Empire style and decorated it with numerous works of art. His family, who still own the castle, live in part of a château that is almost entirely open to the public.
The village itself, first built at the foot of the castle, only truly developed from the Middle Ages onwards; in the 21st century, it turned to tourism, of which the castle is one of the main assets.
