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Château de Fougères-sur-Bièvre
The château de Fougères-sur-Bièvre, in the Loir-et-Cher, was built in the second half of the fifteenth century and completed in the early sixteenth by three generations of ennobled Blois notables. It offers the almost ideal image of a small late-medieval fortress: curtain wall, keep, gun-loop arrow slits, wall-walks and machicolations.
Its buildings, of modest dimensions, keep a character of authenticity and sobriety, amid the fields and bocage of the neighbouring wine-growing Sologne. Listed then classified among the historic monuments in 1912, it has belonged to the State since 1932 and is managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux.
The monument is surrounded by a garden, where walks and events take place through the year, and it is open free of charge during Heritage Days. Fougères-sur-Bièvre is south of Blois, between the Loire and the Cher.
