Château Fort du Pin

In the struggle between the Chalon and Vienne families for control of the Lons-le-Saunier area, Jean de Chalon built a fortress in 1253. In 1445 the castle took on its present appearance: a rectangular keep, a main building and a pentagonal curtain wall flanked by semicircular towers protecting an inner courtyard. The fortified village and lower courtyard were abandoned in the mid-seventeenth century. In 1674 the castle was dismantled. In the eighteenth century it became a gentleman's residence, and a wine estate after 1845. It was restored in 1923 by the architect Georges Martin. Protected as a historic monument: the castle itself in its entirety, including fixed decoration, the remains of the lower courtyard (now a garden), of the Chasnée fortified house and of the village, including the ground and the archaeological remains it contains. The keep, the curtain wall, the main building with its sixteenth-century staircase (except the interiors restored in the twentieth century).

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