France · Restored
Château de Vincennes
The Château de Vincennes is a medieval royal fortress and residence on the eastern edge of Paris, noted for its very large 14th-century keep and its Sainte-Chapelle. Built and expanded from the 14th century onward, the complex later received large 17th-century royal additions and was used as a military base and prison. Today much of the château, including the keep and chapel, survives and is open to the public.
First raised
1340
Its prime
1660
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1660
The shape it held in its prime.
A massive pale-dressed limestone keep with four large rounded projecting turrets dominates a lower rectangular curtain of rougher stone with a continuous machicolated cornice and slate-covered wall-walk. Conical slate roofs cap the curtain’s corner tourelles. The keep rises in smooth cylindrical volumes with narrow vertical slit and pointed-arched windows and pronounced stringcourses; a deep surrounding moat and grassy bank sit between the wall and the outer approach.
Step inside
11 places to explore in 1660.
The record describes 11 distinct spots at Château de Vincennes — including 3 interiors: keep prison cell (dungeon), sainte-chapelle de vincennes interior, bâtiment du roi state room. 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 Vincennes with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1660 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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