JULY – AUGUST Every day from 1 July to 31 August from 10am to 12pm and from 2pm to 6pm Guided tour departures: 10am, 11am, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm Outside these dates: tours available for groups (15 people or more), booking by telephone on 06 41 48 78 74 – 02 48 80 01 27 or by e-mail at contact@chateausagonne.com

Parking on the village square in front of the château . Between Bourges and Nevers on the D2076 – 3 hours from Paris on the A71 motorway – La Guerche-sur-l’Aubois railway station 15 km away. Via 2076: Bourges 42 km – Nevers 35 km- Moulins 57 km GPS 46.50.56 – 2.49.33

Rental of the Moulin de Sagonne gîte (sleeps 28). Further information by telephone on 06 41 48 78 74 – 02 48 80 01 27 or by e-mail at contact@chateausagonne.com

Events (weddings, seminars, etc.)

Receptions : birthdays, weddings, business or private meetings, farewell parties, etc. Further information by telephone on 06 41 48 78 74 – 02 48 80 01 27 or by e-mail at contact@chateausagonne.com

Cash, credit card, cheque, holiday vouchers.

Visitors welcome in French and English .

Reduced rates (on presentation of proof of entitlement)

Jobseekers Students Large families (if at least 4 members of the family are taking part in the visit) Jacques C&oelig;ur Privilege Pass Château de Sagonne Privilege Pass price: €8 instead of €10 for the visit ( click here to buy your Pass and benefit from reduced rates)

Accessible exteriors. Donjon and Mansart Museum not accessible to wheelchair users.

Château de Sagonne A thousand years of history - Mansart exhibition - Medieval festivals - Lectures

Built on a Gallo-Roman site overlooking a medieval village, the enormous keep preserves the memories of illustrious guests: the Constable de Sancerre, the d’Amboise, Gabrielle d’Estrées and Jules Hardouin-Mansart, the famous architect of Versailles. A small museum is dedicated to him. Fourteenth- and seventeenth-century wall paintings, tapestries, historical portraits and ancient weapons adorn the walls of the large medieval rooms.

Postal address: 2 place du Château 18600 Sagonne
Telephone: 06 41 48 78 74 – 02 48 80 01 27
E-mail: [email protected]

Getting there

What you will like

Exciting guided tours of the castle and grounds

The museum about the Comte de Sagonne Jules Hardouin-Mansart

The great medieval summer festival

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Privilege Pass

For one year, save over €100 on admission tickets and events at over 30 sites (châteaux, parks, gardens, museums, exhibitions, historic towns, etc.).

Privilege Pass price at Château de Sagonne: €8 instead of €10 for the visit

Individual visit

Prices for guided tour of the château + self-guided tour of the grounds and Mansart exhibition:

Full price: €10
Reduced (students, jobseekers and large families if at least 4 members of the family take part in the visit): €8
Privilege Pass: €8 (buy my Privilege Pass)
Children aged 6 to 14: €6
Free: children under 6

Self-guided tour (outside and Mansart exhibition): €6

Group visits

Bookings by telephone on 06 41 48 78 74 – 02 48 80 01 27 or by e-mail at [email protected]

Opening times

Every day from 1 July to 31 August, 10am to 12pm and 2pm to 6pm

Guided tour departures

10am, 11am, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm

Outside the opening period, by appointment for groups of 15 or more, by telephone on 06 41 48 78 74 – 02 48 80 01 27 or by e-mail at [email protected]

Events 2026 :

Conferences and events: May to October
28th Sagonne Medieval Festival: 18 and 19 July
European Heritage Days: 10am to 12pm and 2pm to 6pm
Night of the Castles in Sagonne: 17 October

Practical info

Annual opening times
JULY – AUGUST
Every day from 1 July to 31 August from 10am to 12pm and from 2pm to 6pm
Guided tour departures: 10am, 11am, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm
Outside these dates: tours available for groups (15 people or more), booking by telephone on 06 41 48 78 74 – 02 48 80 01 27 or by e-mail at [email protected]
Access and transport
Parking on the village square in front of the château.
Between Bourges and Nevers on the D2076 – 3 hours from Paris on the A71 motorway – La Guerche-sur-l’Aubois railway station 15 km away.
Via 2076: Bourges 42 km – Nevers 35 km- Moulins 57 km
GPS 46.50.56 – 2.49.33
Hosting
Rental of the Moulin de Sagonne gîte (sleeps 28).
Further information by telephone on 06 41 48 78 74 – 02 48 80 01 27 or by e-mail at [email protected]
Events (weddings, seminars, etc.)
Receptions: birthdays, weddings, business or private meetings, farewell parties, etc.
Further information by telephone on 06 41 48 78 74 – 02 48 80 01 27 or by e-mail at [email protected]
Payment methods
Cash, credit card, cheque, holiday vouchers.
Host languages
Visitors welcome in French and English.
Reduced rates (on presentation of proof of entitlement)
- Jobseekers
- Students
- Large families (if at least 4 members of the family are taking part in the visit)
- Jacques Cœur Privilege Pass
Château de Sagonne Privilege Pass price: €8 instead of €10 for the visit
(click here to buy your Pass and benefit from reduced rates)
PRM accessibility
Accessible exteriors.
Donjon and Mansart Museum not accessible to wheelchair users.

Photo gallery

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Sagonne: From the Counts of Sancerre to the 14th century fortress

Known since the 20th century to the house of the Counts of Sancerre, the fortress of Sagonne was built in the 14th century to protect the road from Bourges to Moulins from the ravages of the mercenaries of the ” great companies ” taking advantage of the political instability of the Hundred Years’ War. It consisted of a polygonal enclosure with eight towers, protected by two fortified gates leading to a keep, all surrounded by wide moats.

Sagonne in the time of Jules Hardouin Mansart

The modifications made by Jules-Hardouin Mansart (Royal Superintendent of Buildings and Manufactures, who purchased the property in 1699) affected the entire eastern part of the enclosure, which he had demolished to open up a perspective of formal gardens.

From the Revolution to the 1970s

The demolitions that followed the sale of the castle as national property in 1791, and which continued for over a century, left an enclosure consisting of curtain walls (some of which still exist), six towers (two of which only have their bases left), a fortified gateway and a rectangular keep flanked on the west by three towers and on the east by a staircase tower.

This castle complex has retained many traces of its defensive system, particularly in its northern and western sections. The surrounding towers have a heeled base and the ground floor is vaulted into a cul-de-sac. The entrance structure is traversed by a 15th-century pointed-arch vaulted corridor, which still bears the structure of a knocker, the passage of the portcullis and the hanging of the leaves. The west facade is buttressed by two buttresses that supported corbelled turrets overlooking the bridge over the moat. On either side are the curtain walls flanked by U-shaped towers. The walls are pierced with archways, cruciform archways and gunports.

A staircase built into the thickness of the wall leads to the first floor, which has retained the portcullis chamber. On the north side, the curtain walls have been opened up by the facade of the dwellings, which have been set against the courtyard enclosure. These buildings consist of stables to the south and the intendancy and garrison accommodation to the north. They date from the 15th to 18th centuries.

The keep has lost its roof. It comprises a rectangular building flanked by towers. To the north is the three-storey part of the seigneurial dwelling, flanked at the north-west corner by a U-shaped tower. The central part is built as a rectangular tower under which is a vaulted corridor. The facade is made up of two projecting buttresses joined on the fourth level by a pointed arch over the windows on each floor. The tops of the buttresses bear the corbels of turrets that no longer exist.

On the ground floor, a vaulted corridor has preserved part of the defensive system: traces of a drawbridge system and a portcullis. Above this vaulted corridor is the chapel. To the south, a large U-shaped tower has been built diagonally across the south gable. The original spiral staircase starts under the vault on the ground floor; it is built into the thickness of the wall. In the 15th century, a square staircase tower was added, pierced by eight rectangular windows, the sculpted, openwork spandrels of which form small geminated and three-lobed arches. The tower is crowned by two additional storeys, the upper part of which is flanked on three sides by braces. It houses a 170-step spiral staircase that turns to the right. The total height of the tower is almost 40 metres.

The Sagonne fortress has been undergoing restoration since the 1970s.