Chateau de Villesavin
Chateau de Villesavin
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Diotime
33 contributions
Aug 2024 • Family
Very nice visit, we did everything outside. Dogs are accepted except during the guided tour of the interiors. However, the welcome was a bit condescending, it was maybe just a bad day.
Still 5 stars, the visit is worth visiting!
Still 5 stars, the visit is worth visiting!
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Written August 16, 2024
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newsey
Amberieux-en-Dombes, France247 contributions
May 2024 • Couples
Small castle, but very pretty. We didn't do the guided tour for the apartments, I think it's something to do. We toured the castle, saw the chapel, the main courtyard, the dovecote, the wedding museum and the hippo cars. Quick visit but worth doing if you have time
Written May 6, 2024
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dupanloup44
291 contributions
May 2024 • Couples
Small castle. The apartments are quick but informative to visit. Lots of new stuff for the time. On the other hand, a superb wedding museum. In short, I didn't have time to tour the magnificent park due to lack of time. But the place is superb
Written May 20, 2024
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marc-bea14
Caen, France19 contributions
Sept 2024 • Couples
Very interesting guided tour, then self-guided tour.
Dogs are allowed.
The places are full of history, without him chambord!
the site is quiet, you can land in different places to enjoy the place, nothing press!
Bravo for all the work done and good luck in your projects
Dogs are allowed.
The places are full of history, without him chambord!
the site is quiet, you can land in different places to enjoy the place, nothing press!
Bravo for all the work done and good luck in your projects
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Written September 15, 2024
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MRB01
Carcassonne Center, France815 contributions
Aug 2014 • Couples
Forget opulence but think more of history, charm and a family home. This is certainly a a forgotten chateau, off the beaten track, and full of character. The staff and tour guides were very welcoming and there are translations available (tour guide was brilliant). It is a building full of history... Its current state of repair shows that the years have taken their toll but it is certainly worth a visit. The medieval chapel paintings are worth a visit on their own. There are also a few interesting exhibitions and features that add extra interest. I think that this a Chateau which could easily be overlooked due to its location to near by more famous neighbours but it is certainly worth a visit.
Written August 14, 2014
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Thank you so much
We are very happy that you enjoyed your visit.
Your commentary is very positive for us and we'll continue to restaure this fabulous castle.
Le service communication
Written May 21, 2015
This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
Aqua_Uomo
Toronto, Canada8,156 contributions
Apr 2019 • Solo
I was there on April 18. It has to be a reason why the last review was in November 2018. Not many people visit this place. It looked very nice in the brochure I found at the hotel in Blois. It was an old picture or Photoshop enhanced but it has very little to do with what the place looks like now. It is a private mansion and it should not even be called "chateau" (castle). It needs a lot of work starting with the exterior, the walls and the roof are falling apart. It should not be allowed to be visited and it should be free, the cheapest ticket is 7.5 Euros. It is expensive considering the admittance fee real at castles like Chambord and Fontainbleau are around 12 euros.
Written April 29, 2019
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Janet T
Shrewsbury, UK458 contributions
May 2015 • Couples
We visited this chateau recently. It is a less well known one but is well marked off the main road and has sufficient parking. There are tours in English or French by a young woman who knows a lot about the chateau and its history. There are several exhibitions round the courtyard and externally, including a fascinating museum of marriage in the 19th century, which includes hundreds of wedding globes. There is also a listed dovecote at the back of the building.
This is a bit different and definitely worth a look if you are in the area.
This is a bit different and definitely worth a look if you are in the area.
Written June 6, 2015
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Cassini
London173 contributions
Sept 2018 • Couples
This chateau is of modest size, built for the man overseeing the building of Chambord, down the road. Being in charge of such a huge project he was able to siphon off materials and labour for his own house, namely this one. It is built on three sides of a square, one side of which is a false moat, and then there are residential rooms on the central wing, a small chapel on one side and the working, functional rooms and buildings on the other. The chapel has original murals and a private oratory off to one side of the altar with a kind of cashier's grill with a gap under which the priest could pass the wafer to the lord of the manor.
You have to take the guided tour (45 minutes) to see inside the house, entering up a flight of stone steps to a vestibule and kitchen. Some original fittings of the kitchen remain, like an automatic rotary device to turn the pig on the spit, a floor that can be readily sluiced down, and a self closing door, and there are old appliances hung around the walls. Beyond the vestibule are three or four rooms dressed in a succession of styles. The furnishings are evidently authentic and unrestored; it looks as if the historical occupants have just left the rooms. The guide spoke machine-gun-fire French and was knowledgeable about the central heating systems. A sheet with an English language guide was provided. Back out in the stable yard there is a collection of carriages, including a charming children's carriage and a sleigh, with a place for the nanny or a manservant, each vehicle drawn by a goat.
On the other side of the chateau is the huge dovecote and, for me the high point of the visit, the marriage museum. I had thought this would be more interesting for my wife than me, but we both spent an hour and a half here, soaking up the glimpses of French upper class life in the 19th-early twentieth century, as shown in the collection of marriage stuff. Here is a wardrobe, made of wood cut on the birth of a girl-child to be seasoned for a decade and made into a wedding chest and a piece of furniture - you can see that the girl's destiny as a wife is planned and set from day 1 of her life. There was a cabinet of umpteen chamber pots, specially made for the wedding, including miniatures for the guests to take home, each with an eye painted on the bottom of the pot, and intended to be filled with sweet white wine, chocolate turds and tissue paper for the happy couple to consume on wakening after the wedding night. Such games for the young people! Here are the servants, starching collars, sewing dresses and baking. And here is a room housing the vast collection of ornamental bell jars with model flowers, plants and mirrors inside, presentation pieces made for the bride by her mother, their symbolic language explained.
Through the visit, the rooms and the objects we came to know something of the family through the generations, their household and their circle of friends - not ordinary people, presumably, but certainly people recognisably like us..
We spent a very pleasant three hours here. If you have children there are opportunities to walk in the park land and see a small zoo of farm animals, and there is a ghost walk. Everything is wheel-chair accessible with the caveats that it is hard to push a wheeled vehicle over sandy areas and some uneven cobbles, and, most problematic, the house is accessible up a small stone flight of stairs.
Thoroughly recommended.
You have to take the guided tour (45 minutes) to see inside the house, entering up a flight of stone steps to a vestibule and kitchen. Some original fittings of the kitchen remain, like an automatic rotary device to turn the pig on the spit, a floor that can be readily sluiced down, and a self closing door, and there are old appliances hung around the walls. Beyond the vestibule are three or four rooms dressed in a succession of styles. The furnishings are evidently authentic and unrestored; it looks as if the historical occupants have just left the rooms. The guide spoke machine-gun-fire French and was knowledgeable about the central heating systems. A sheet with an English language guide was provided. Back out in the stable yard there is a collection of carriages, including a charming children's carriage and a sleigh, with a place for the nanny or a manservant, each vehicle drawn by a goat.
On the other side of the chateau is the huge dovecote and, for me the high point of the visit, the marriage museum. I had thought this would be more interesting for my wife than me, but we both spent an hour and a half here, soaking up the glimpses of French upper class life in the 19th-early twentieth century, as shown in the collection of marriage stuff. Here is a wardrobe, made of wood cut on the birth of a girl-child to be seasoned for a decade and made into a wedding chest and a piece of furniture - you can see that the girl's destiny as a wife is planned and set from day 1 of her life. There was a cabinet of umpteen chamber pots, specially made for the wedding, including miniatures for the guests to take home, each with an eye painted on the bottom of the pot, and intended to be filled with sweet white wine, chocolate turds and tissue paper for the happy couple to consume on wakening after the wedding night. Such games for the young people! Here are the servants, starching collars, sewing dresses and baking. And here is a room housing the vast collection of ornamental bell jars with model flowers, plants and mirrors inside, presentation pieces made for the bride by her mother, their symbolic language explained.
Through the visit, the rooms and the objects we came to know something of the family through the generations, their household and their circle of friends - not ordinary people, presumably, but certainly people recognisably like us..
We spent a very pleasant three hours here. If you have children there are opportunities to walk in the park land and see a small zoo of farm animals, and there is a ghost walk. Everything is wheel-chair accessible with the caveats that it is hard to push a wheeled vehicle over sandy areas and some uneven cobbles, and, most problematic, the house is accessible up a small stone flight of stairs.
Thoroughly recommended.
Written September 24, 2018
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PennWinchester
Winchester, UK278 contributions
Aug 2014 • Couples
I am so used to seeing the luxurious chateaux of the area and it was interesting to see a home where the owners are striving to restore it. It really showed what a commitment and sacrifice has to be made, very interesting indeed.
Written August 13, 2014
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Thank you so much.
We appreciate your commentary and very happy that you enjoyed your visit.
Le service communication
Written May 21, 2015
This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
Tassylass
Burnie, Australia372 contributions
Jun 2019
WE visited this chateau as its still lived in. You have to have a guide and the girl we had was amazing. We were told that the tour would be in French but when she realised that we all understood English, she spoke in English, very very well. She was engaging and full of great information and stories. Most of all we loved the donkeys (Pitou, rare and with long dreadlocks and huge ears) which really won us over. Other miniature animals such as goats were there too. The chapel is gorgeous and the old trees simply huge and amazing. We were riding bikes and left them quite safely under the trees.
Written June 17, 2019
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Bonjour, Je voudrais savoir s'il y a un parking près du château? Merci d'avance à ceux qui pourront me répondre.
Written May 14, 2021
Bonjour,
Je voudrais savoir combien de temps il faut compter pour visiter le château et si les chiens sont autorisés.
Merci d'avance à ceux qui pourront me répondre.
Written May 13, 2021
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