En un regard
Le château en bref
On the road to La Gacilly, at Les Fougerêts in the pays de Redon, the Manoir de la Ville-Caro was the former seat of a seigneury held for two centuries by the Mancel family. It first appears in 1427 as a possession of noble Jehan Mancel, and several generations of Mancels kept the fief until the seventeenth century. After the death of Nicolas Mancel in 1624, the estate passed by marriage to Pierre de Sérent, then to the Bruban family in 1651 and to the Guillarts around 1750. The main building, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, is a rectangular structure of schist rubble, with a single square storey under a slate roof. It retains a schist fireplace, a statue niche, a well built into the masonry and, on the north façade, defensive openings. A later addition bears a lintel dated 1756. Around the manor survive a dovecote pierced with gun loops, outbuildings and a bread oven; a private chapel once existed. Recorded by the Inventaire de Bretagne, the manor is not protected as a monument historique. It is today a private house.