Château d'Yèvre-le-Châtel

En un regard

Le château en bref

The fortress of Yèvre-le-Châtel overlooks the village of the same name, an associated commune of Yèvre-la-Ville in the Loiret, near Pithiviers. The site was first a 10th-century motte belonging to the Abbey of Fleury, then it was attached to the royal domain in 1112 under Louis VI. The fortress was rebuilt around 1200, in the time of Philip Augustus, to a lozenge-shaped plan flanked by four semicircular towers and preceded by a two-towered gatehouse. Along with Montargis, it is one of the few strongholds north of the Loire never to fall into English hands during the Hundred Years' War. Ruined as early as 1610, listed among the first historic monuments in 1862, it has been restored, and its upper courtyard now houses medieval gardens.