Château de Montreuil-Bonnin

Exceptional witness of the medieval military architecture of the XIIIth century, the castle of Montreuil-Bonnin is a high place of the history of Poitou. It played a major military and economic role from the Plantagenets until the Wars of Religion. Since the fairy Mélusine, to whom the legend attributes the construction of the keep, many illustrious people have followed one another: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionheart, Blanche of Castille, Henri VI, and many others...