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Le château en bref
In the commune of Sandillon, on the edge of the Sologne to the south-east of Orléans, the Château d'Allou stands on a site that has been occupied for a long time. A fortified residence is attested there as early as the High Middle Ages, and the former castle belonged in particular to Viscount Gabriel d'Orléans. After the departure of the lords, this dwelling was demolished and replaced, in the first half of the 19th century, by the present main building: a simple rectangular block of one storey, plain and without superfluous ornament. The principal witness to the medieval past of the site is the castle mound, preserved during the works and transformed into an island in the middle of a landscaped pond created in the park. This blend of a 19th-century bourgeois residence and a feudal vestige integrated into a pleasure garden is characteristic of the estates of the Orléanais. The château is a private residence and is not open to visitors.