HAUT-CLAIRVAUX

The dungeon, 28 metres high, is the last and smallest of the seven towers of the old feudal castle built by Richard Lion, the future King of England. At the top of the summit, you can find and see the chimneys of La Manu in Chatellerault and those of the Centrale, a bird's flight, 46 kilometres away! Within the castle walls, the th century Notre-Dame-des-Vergers chapel of the th century, a transitional ogival style with the half-slender shape, the emerging arches with all the details of Romanesque ornamentation. In the past, superb murals from the th to the th century represented the bucolic work of the twelve months of the year.