Loriol Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Loriol Castle stands in the hamlet of Loriol, in the commune of Confrançon, in Bresse (Ain). The estate, then called Anières, is known from the twelfth century; a deed of 1306 authorised its lord to hold a fortified house there. In 1442, the Duke of Savoy permitted the addition of a tower, and the layout was settled around the middle of the fifteenth century: a keep flanked by three towers. The keep's chapel received a decorative scheme in the sixteenth century (a joist dated 1543), and the Loriol family settled there in 1568. In the eighteenth century, Louis du Port de Loriol, provost of Paris, had the building embellished with faux-architecture render; the estate was raised to a county in 1743. In the nineteenth century, the castle was remodelled in the Neo-Gothic style, the architect Charles Martin having left drawings of it. The castle, farm, bake-house and outbuildings have been listed as a monument historique since 1994. Private property.