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Château du Chassan

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Forts and castles

Château du Chassan

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The Chassan castle is a castle located in the commune of Faverolles in the Cantal, in the region of Saint-Flour.

Coordinates: 44°56'32"N, 3°8'59"E

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Auvergne-Rhône-AlpesFrance

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Château du Chassan – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Garabit viaduct, Château d'Alleuze, Géoscope, Lac de Grandval.

2.6 miNE
Bridge
Garabit viaduct
67 min walk • The Garabit Viaduct is a marvel of 19th-century engineering, gracefully arching over the Truyère River in southern France. Completed in 1884, this wrought iron railway bridge was designed by Gustave Eiffel, the same mastermind behind the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris.
3 miW
Forts and castles
Château d'Alleuze, Alleuze
78 min walk • The Château d'Alleuze is a ruined castle situated in the commune of Alleuze, in the Cantal département of France. Built in the 13th century by the constables of Auvergne, it belonged to the bishops of Clermont. During the Hundred Years War it was seized for the English by Bernard de Garlan.
6.9 miSE
Museum
Géoscope
177 min walk • The Geoscope is a monumental display of rocks at the La Lozère motorway service at junction 32 of the A75 autoroute at Albaret-Sainte-Marie in the department of Lozère, France. It is sometimes described as a geological museum. 45 stones, each weighing many tonnes and accompanied...
2.5 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lac de Grandval
64 min walk • Lac de Grandval is a lake in Cantal, France. At an elevation of 742 m, its surface area is 11 km². The lake lies in the communes of Alleuze, Faverolles and Fridefont; at its western end is the hydroelectric dam, between Lavastrie and Fridefont.
4 miN
Locality
Anglards-de-Saint-Flour
101 min walk • Anglards-de-Saint-Flour is a commune in the Cantal department in the Auvergne region in south-central France.
3 miE
Locality
Loubaresse
78 min walk • Loubaresse is a former municipality located in the Cantal department in Auvergne, southern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Val-d'Arcomie.
7 miSE
Forts and castles
Château d'Orfeuillette, Albaret-Sainte-Marie
180 min walk • The castle of Orfeuillette is a neo-Renaissance castle of the XIX th century located on the commune of Albaret-Sainte-Marie, department of Lozere. It was built by Théophile Roussel, who ended his life there in 1903.