France · Restored
Château de Châteaubriant
The Château de Châteaubriant is a medieval fortress substantially altered in the Renaissance and sited on a promontory above the river Chère in western France. Its complex combines 11th–14th-century defensive masonry — curtain walls, round towers and a keep — with an early-16th-century Renaissance palace built along the enceinte and a long gallery.
Its prime
1530
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1530
The shape it held in its prime.
A long alignment of stone buildings built on a medieval enceinte faces a grassy slope and the moat; steep slate roofs rise nearly as tall as the facades, pierced by ornate stone dormers. Two cylindrical medieval towers with conical slate caps flank parts of the Renaissance façade, which is opened by regularly spaced mullioned windows with light dressed-stone surrounds against rough schist-and-sandstone walls. A round keep and portions of crenellated curtain wall step along the river brink, and trees frame the approach.
Step inside
11 places to explore in 1530.
The record describes 11 distinct spots at Château de Châteaubriant — including 3 interiors: chapel interior, great hall / seigniorial halls interior, chambre dorée (jean de laval wing) interior. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Château de Châteaubriant with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1530 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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