Guémené-sur-Scorff Castle

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Le château en bref

Guémené-sur-Scorff Castle, in the Morbihan, was one of the strongholds of the powerful House of Rohan-Guémené. Built on the site of an eleventh-century fortification, it was rebuilt between 1474 and 1486 by Louis II of Rohan-Guémené. Its enclosure, with curtain walls nearly three metres thick, was punctuated by eight strong towers. Dismantled at the beginning of the seventeenth century, it served after the Revolution as a prison, a hospital and a barracks, then was exploited as a quarry before being almost entirely demolished in the 1920s. What survives is the great rampart and its tower, the Porte des Rohan with its Tudor arch surmounted by machicolations, the guardroom, the Prison Tower, and the baths known as the "Bains de la Reine", which were sold to an antiquary in 1929 and then recovered and reassembled. The gateway has been listed as a monument historique since 1925, and the baths since 2016; the ramparts were restored in 2012–2013 by Roi Morvan Communauté.