En un regard
Le château en bref
On the left bank of the Loire, halfway up the hillside, the Château de la Vrillière overlooks the valley at La Chapelle-Basse-Mer (Divatte-sur-Loire). Rebuilt in the first half of the seventeenth century on a manor house dating from the late fifteenth century, it is laid out around a rectangular courtyard entered through a gateway in the classical style. A circular dovecote, lacking its stone cupola, retains its nesting boxes made of terracotta pillettes. According to local history, a semi-subterranean vaulted kitchen was used for clandestine masses during the Revolution, and a fire devastated the east wing in 1794. The main residence, the dovecote, and the façades and roofs of the buildings around the courtyard have been listed as historic monuments since 12 October 2001. Private property.