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Château de Bienassis

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Château de Bienassis

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Location: Villemoirieu, La Tour-Du-Pin, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France

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1. Tour in the balconies of Dauphiné

84.4km

03:58

880m

870m

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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2. Château de Bienassis – Troglodyte in Cremieu. loop from Veyssilieu

51.3km

02:50

900m

Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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3. Moulin de l'Étang de Marsa – Chateau de Chapeau Cornu loop from Saint-Priest

125km

06:23

1,390m

Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride.

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David W

September 25, 2022

The Château de Bienassis in Villemoirieu, near Crémieu, was frequented by Alphonse de Lamartine.

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Clément

March 12, 2024

The Bienassis fortified house, built by the Vallin family at the end of the 14th century, was organized around an enclosed courtyard and included a pavilion surrounded by watchtower turrets. The current building was completed in 1897 for Casimir Gournet, who wanted to give the old feudal residence the appearance of a medieval castle. Alphonse de Lamartine made several stays in Bienassis with his friend Nicolas Prosper Guichard, between 1804 and 1808.
The castle, built of limestone rubble, consists of an L-shaped building covered with a long-pitched roof covered with mechanical tiles extended to the south by a high quadrangular tower with a porch in the work. The north wing has four levels of elevation: three cellars on the basement floor, a square floor and an attic floor. The tower rises on three levels: a ground floor with ribbed vaults and two square floors, the buildings are crowned with false machicolation. The corner turrets are covered with conical slate roofs. The stained glass windows of the ground floor living room are decorated with two bust-length women and two bust-length men in rondels. The coat of arms of the Joubert de Montlevon family can be found on one of the windows of the first living room on the ground floor. In the library, two shields with scrolling scroll motifs, a shield decorated with three female heads, a shield decorated with a passing griffin, and a shield decorated with two hammers with the initials C G for Casimir Gournet adorn the windows.

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Elevation 240 m

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Location: Villemoirieu, La Tour-Du-Pin, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France

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Château de Bienassis

1. Tour in the balconies of Dauphiné

2. Château de Bienassis – Troglodyte in Cremieu. loop from Veyssilieu

3. Moulin de l'Étang de Marsa – Chateau de Chapeau Cornu loop from Saint-Priest

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