Montrésor · Indre-et-Loire
The terraces and gardens of Montrésor
On its rocky promontory above the Indrois, the château of Montrésor — a fortress of Foulques Nerra rebuilt in 1393 and 1493 and remade in the Troubadour taste after 1849 — was classified in 1996 with its two enceintes, its terraces and their gardens, in a landscape park.
From the source
Château de Montrésor is a château at Montrésor, Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 14th, 16th and 19th centuries. It is protected as a monument historique at the higher of the two levels (classé). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
The record tells the succession: the fortress attributed to Foulques Nerra, the 1393 rebuilding for Jean IV de Bueil, the new house built by Ymbert de Bastarnay after 1493, of which only the central part survives, and the purchase in 1849 by the Polish count Xavier Branicki, whose descendants still live there. Branicki restored the enclosure wall, remodelled the outbuildings and gave the château its neo-Gothic envelope, furnishing it with Polish collections; his successors kept that nineteenth-century decor within a landscape park. The 1996 classification names the château, its dependencies, its two enceintes and the ground of the parcels, including the terraces and their gardens.
Recommendation
The terraces look down on the Indrois; the gardens on them are classified as part of the fortress, which is rare.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00097876 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Montresor03.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
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Montrésor
Montrésor stands on the Indrois in Indre-et-Loire. Its château combines medieval remains with a Renaissance residence, later associated with the Polish collector Xavier Branicki. The collegiate church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and the village’s market hall add different civic and religious landmarks to the ensemble. Houses and lanes occupy the ground between the château and river, while the banks of the Indrois provide views of the settlement as a whole. Montrésor is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France. The château and its collection are a distinct visitor site; the village’s streets, church and river landscape form a wider subject.
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