page_title: Château de Selles-sur-Cher
section_title: Château today
hierarchical_section_title: Château de Selles-sur-Cher / Château today
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Château de Selles-sur-Cher drawn by Carl Johan Cronstedt (1709–1779)
context_page_description: Château de Selles-sur-Cher is a château located in the commune of Selles-sur-Cher, in the Loir-et-Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region, France. The château is privately owned and is a designated historical monument of France.
context_section_description: The castle had been abandoned by 2002. It was purchased by Michel Guyot and his wife, Noémi Brunet. Guyot has done restoration work on previous castles, including Château de Saint-Fargeau, and is behind the Guédelon Castle project. In 2012, it was opened to the public. Later that year, they sold it to Nicolas Mazzesi and his wife Katherine Wu, who plan to open a winery on the site. The château hosts festivals and other events, and is the first tourist site in France to offer a virtual reality tour.
  In early 2016, Georg Kabierske, a German history of art student from the University of Heidelberg, who had viewed the châteaux of the Loire Valley via Google Earth, discovered a previously unknown map of Château de Selles-sur-Cher drawn by Swedish architect Carl Johan Cronstedt (1709–1779). The map of the castle and its elaborate French garden had been digitized by the National Museum in Stockholm and was classified as being of unknown origin, until the German student recognized it as Selles-sur-Cher.
  In April 2016, a 300-year-old Lebanon Cedar on the grounds of the castle was named a "Remarkable Tree of France" (French: Arbre remarquable de France). The tree stands 34.60 metres (113.5 ft) high with a circumference of 7.85 metres (25.8 ft).
caption: Map of Château Selles-sur-Cher by Carl Johan Cronstedt, discovered in 2016.
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