Château de la Gaudinière

En un regard

Le château en bref

In the Breil-Barberie district of Nantes, the Château de la Gaudinière stands in the middle of a park of several hectares. The present château, built between 1864 and 1873 by the architect Léon Lenoir, replaced an older residence and is distinguished by its red-brick façade, a rarity in a city where white tuffeau stone predominates. Before the Revolution, the estate belonged to the Nantes shipowner Louis Chaurand. It then passed through the hands of a succession of families and institutions before being bought back by the City of Nantes in 1992, which is today its owner. The park, enlarged in the nineteenth century, is home in particular to a giant sequoia planted in 1864.