Kergonano Castle

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Le château en bref

Near the Gulf of Morbihan, at Baden, Kergonano Castle is the centre of a lordship first attested in 1309, when it belonged to Guillaume de Baden. In the sixteenth century it was in the hands of the Louénan family, before passing by marriage to Pierre Dondel at the end of the seventeenth century. The central body of the house is attributed to him, built around the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. His descendants, including François Dondel de Kergonano, seneschal of the présidial of Vannes, retained the estate. In the nineteenth century the castle took on its present appearance: a side pavilion was added before 1852, then the central pavilion was enlarged and raised around 1862, a date recorded on the roof timbers. The whole, in rendered granite, is distinguished by a symmetrical composition in a neo-seventeenth-century spirit, in which a two-storey central pavilion is flanked by wings and side pavilions. Panelling from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries decorates the interior. The granite outbuildings date from the seventeenth century; the chapel has disappeared. The estate is privately owned.