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Saint Maurice Church of Ambérieux-en-Dombes, built during the second half of the 19th century.

View of the square-based keep. Remains of the building built in the 14th century.

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: https://chateaudeflecheres.com/la-visite

The castle of Ambérieux-en-Dombes is an old fortified castle, founded in the 12th century by the lords of Villars, and rebuilt in the 14th century

The Château de Messimy is an important part of the private heritage of the department of Ain. Its history is linked to the surveillance of the ford which made it possible to cross the Saône between Messimy (Ain) and Port Rivière (St Georges de Reneins, Rhône). The current keep dates from the 12th century. The south facade, flanked by two towers, one square, the other rectangular, dates from the 15th and 17th centuries. Moats, fed by the river La Mâtre, surrounded the whole. They remain today, but the water has disappeared.

Fléchères is the largest castle open to visitors around Lyon. Raised in one go, from 1606 to 1625 and preserved intact, it offers exceptional testimony to the life of the great notables of Lyon in the 17th century.

The ramparts protecting the church and the castle date from the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th century the ramparts had fourteen towers, three gates and were surrounded by ditches, which are now filled in. The castle was dismantled in 1595.

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.