En un regard
Le château en bref
Set on a rocky spur overlooking the Havre, a stone's throw from the Loire, Oudon Castle controlled the valley and looked out over Anjou on the opposite bank. Almost nothing remains of the eleventh-century fortress: from 1392, Alain de Malestroit, with the consent of Duke John IV of Brittany, rebuilt it around a powerful octagonal keep measuring 32.5 m, completed around 1415. Serving as both residence and stronghold, the tower stacks large halls and chambers, opened by wide windows onto the river. Anne de Montmorency received Charles IX here in the sixteenth century. Confiscated during the Revolution and then exploited as a quarry, the site was saved by the Département, and the interior of the keep was reopened in the twentieth century. Listed as a historic monument, it is open to visitors from March to October, with a scenography about the Loire and a panorama from the keep's terrace.