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Château de Fléchères

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Location: Fareins, Bourg-En-Bresse, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France

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1. Beauregard footbridge – Beauregard loop from Belleville-sur-Saône

48.1km

02:50

270m

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2. La Voie Bleue – Saône loop from Villeneuve

32.0km

02:07

180m

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3. Château de Fléchères – La Voie Bleue loop from Villeneuve

30.8km

02:02

150m

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Totosupertramp (Thomas Boury)

July 17, 2023

The Château de Flégères is the largest castle to visit around Lyon. Spread over more than 30 hectares, the castle has a French garden and an English park which are very pleasant for a walk. All the information necessary for the visit is available here: chateaudeflecheres.com/la-visite

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June 6, 2020

Jean de Sève, squire, lord of Fromentes and Villette, receiver of finances in the generality of Lyon and provost of the merchants of this city (1612-1614) laid the foundations of the current castle, between 1610 and 1616, on the site of 'a fortified house which defended a ford on the Saône, and built the castle in a single campaign of works.
In 1820, a landscaped park was created. This will be the last major building site for the castle. In June 1972, the castle became the property of one of the thugs of the Gang des Lyonnais, Johanny Chavel. The latter embarked on major restoration and development work. During the summer of 1972, he organized a grand opening night for his estate, with a sound and light show entrusted to a large Parisian pyrotechnic company. This festival brings together a hundred mobsters and as many police officers at the castle. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Fl%C3%A9ch%C3%A8res But on October 18, 1973, Chavel disappeared. Presumably the victim of an assassination, his body will never be found. On December 19, 1974, around thirty men and women were arrested. Thirteen will be charged. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_des_Lyonnais
It was not until the end of 1997 and the acquisition of the estate by Marc Simonet-Lenglart and Pierre-Albert Almendros that, from 1998 and for a period of five years, a major campaign to restore the castle and its gardens. The castle is nowadays open to the public. chateaudeflecheres.com

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Tobias

August 14, 2020

The imposing castle "Château de Fléchères" is now open to the public and can be visited. But that wasn't always the case - the property can look back on a very checkered history. The castle itself dates back to the 17th century, but was built on the walls of an old 12th-century fortified building. First owned by various noble families, it passed into the hands of a gang of Mafiosi from Lyon in the 1970s. Later in the 1980s the castle was almost deserted and partly looted before being listed as a historical monument in 1985.

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Location: Fareins, Bourg-En-Bresse, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France

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Château de Fléchères

1. Beauregard footbridge – Beauregard loop from Belleville-sur-Saône

2. La Voie Bleue – Saône loop from Villeneuve

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