Four tours(towers,ballots), high leaky walls of popguns, crowns of machicolation, the castle of Sillé-le-Guillaume is a real medieval fortress. Several times besieged during Hundred Years' War, the castle of Sillé-le-Guillaume passed in the hands of the families of Beauvau, Cossé-Brissac but also of the princess of Conti illegitimate girl of Louis XVI and of Miss of Vallière. Medieval fortress rebuilt in the second half of the XVth century, pleasure house in the XVIIth century, prison during French Revolution, castle had several lives! Napoleon gave it in the municipality which used him(it) as city council and middle school(college) then high school until 1971\\. To visit the castle of Sillé it is to discover an unique(only) medieval fortress, it is to travel(browse) the jolts(starts) of history(story) and it is to discover emblematic characters! Robert de Sillé and Arsène Marie Le Feuvre wait for you to make you bare their secrets.
Website
http://www.sille-le-guillaume.fr/-Chateau-de-Sille-le-Guillaume-.html
Phone
02 43 14 23 43
Other
https://www.facebook.com/chateausilleleguillaume/

Address
place des minimes, 72140 Sillé-le-Guillaume, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France