Château du Fort-des-Salles

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The Château du Fort-des-Salles, in Mayet in the south of the Sarthe, belongs to the line of fortifications that protected the Maine. Its origins are attributed to the time of Henry II Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and of Maine, who became King of England, but the present building was rebuilt from the fourteenth century onwards. After the wars against the English, it was known in the sixteenth century as the Château de Mayet. It retains the features of a defensive fortification: machicolations, lateral bretèches, a tower of the original enceinte and a postern. The postern is listed as a monument historique, while the tower is registered as an historic monument, a double protection that underlines the interest of the military remains preserved within a complex otherwise reworked over the centuries.