サン・ルパース周辺のアトラクション＆必見スポット - トップ20

Unfortunately, the church was not accessible when I visited (mid-September 2024). You could only look in through a gate and the dance of death depictions on the left side were not really visible. In front of them were transparencies with skeleton drawings. Maybe those were the depictions...

Raised at the end of the 15th century, the castle was re-drilled in the 17th century. It looks like a long building flanked at the four corners by circular towers. A median precedes it to the east. Dry ditches on a square plan surround it. The entrance gate has two Louis XIII pillars, brick and stone in alternating courses. Each end of this gate is marked with square entrance pavilions.££In 1562, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, was held prisoner there by the Duke of Guise after the Battle of Dreux. Catherine de Medici and the members of the king's government came to visit the prisoner to try to negotiate peace, obtaining from this prince that he had the Huguenots lay down their arms. Construction periods: 15th century, 17th century. Source https://monumentum.fr/monument- historique/pa00096965/bailleau-leveque-chateau-de-levesville

The walls of the nave of the church of Saint-Orien are adorned with paintings from the 15th century, which are surprisingly well preserved. They represent a dance of death, symbolizing the confrontation between humans and death. To have !

these paintings are quite exceptional and deserve to be appreciated by visitors passing through or not.

Very beautiful paintings which we feel the age

Built in 1768, the castle was extended a century later, then used as a boarding school around the 1950s. The castle was bought in 2004 by the Boulard family who restored it. Since then, it is possible to rent it for seminars or weddings. A 22-hectare park surrounds two guest rooms and is home to wallabies and some unusual animals.

In the spring, behind the castle we saw the park and the kangaroos with their cubs

Very beautiful castle not directly visible from the road and therefore possibility of missing it.