Château de Lugny
The Château de Lugny is a castle in the "commune" of Lugny in the Saône-et-Loire "département" of France. Description. In the Middle Ages, the Château de Lugny, flanked by several towers and equipped with an "extremely high and very beautiful" keep, was surrounded by ditches filled with water from the source of the Bourbonne River - known as the ""source des eaux bleues"" (blue waters) - which rises at the foot of the castle hill. However, of the imposing castle of the lords of Lugny, burnt down during the French Revolution, there remains today only two round  three-storey towers, traditionally dated from the 14th century, and part of the common buildings corresponding essentially to those of the old lower courtyard of the manorial residence and forming a quadrilateral. To each of the two gate towers a narrow building is joined. These, built perpendicularly one with the other, are covered by high tiled roofs. The building adjoining the north-east tower is a circular turret whose roof is pierced by an attic window dominating the angle between the building and the tower. Having passed the two gate towers - which originally flanked a gateway with a drawbridge - one  discovers on the left three openings to partially walled arcades which were once the former "conciergerie". On the right can be seen two elegant bays and their profiled semicircular arches and the entry to the old castle stables - traditionally dated from the 16th century. The building in which the lords of Lugny resided was built formerly on the flat land between the present church and the castle hill. Set on fire in July 1789, it almost entirely disappeared and all that remains of this construction is the base of a circular tower and, a few metres away, a small portion  of the old wall. The "château" is private property and not open to the public. History. "House of Lugny" "House of Chabot" "House of Saulx" "House of La Baume" "French Revolution" "More recent"