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Le château en bref
On the heights of Montbouy, in the Gâtinais Loirétain, the Château de Chenevières overlooks the Loing valley and the Briare Canal. The site has been occupied since ancient times: nearby, the remains of a Gallo-Roman amphitheatre survive, and a first castle is mentioned as early as 1323, with a fourteenth-century deed even referring to the keep of Chenevières. This medieval fortress later fell into ruin. New buildings were erected around the mid-sixteenth century, but the site declined again in the seventeenth century. The present château was only built at the very end of the eighteenth century, on the site of the ruined edifice. It is a plain residence, built of rendered limestone rubble and roofed with a slate hip roof, with one storey and an attic above a basement. Its five-bay façade is centred on the entrance door, surmounted by a pediment pierced with a dormer window. Listed in the Inventaire général, the château remains a private property that is not open to visitors.