The Château de Chareil-Cintrat, also known as the Château du Bas-Chareil is a late medieval château in France. It is located near Chareil-Cintrat, in the Allier department, Auvergne.
The château was built at the end of the Middle Ages by the Chareil family. In the early 16th century it was the home of Claude Morin, contrôleur ordinaire des guerres, who commissioned the Renaissance interior decorations, after returning from military campaigns during the Italian Wars. During the French Revolution, the property was sold off by the revolutionary government. It was purchased by the Franch state on October 10, 1958, the same year in which it was classed as a monument historique. The château is now in the care of the Centre des monuments nationaux, and is open to the public. It comprises a rectangular main building, with round towers at the north-west and south-west corners.

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Le château des Écherolles est un château situé à La Ferté-Hauterive, en France.
Localisation
Le château est situé au sud de la commune de La Ferté-Hauterive (Allier), à proximité du cours de l'Allier.
Historique
Jacques Cœur (1395-1456), riche commerçant dont la famille était originaire de Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule, argentier du roi Charles VII, possédait la terre des Écherolles, où un village de mariniers dominait le port de la Corde.
Au XVIe siècle, la famille Giraud des Écherolles en devient propriétaire.
Le château est vendu comme bien national à la Révolution.
L'édifice est inscrit au titre des monuments historiques en 2003.

Château des Écherolles

The Château de Billy is a ruined 13th – 14th century castle in the town of Billy in the Allier département of France.
History
For the first several centuries of its existence, the Château de Billy was the property of its builders, the Bourbons. The fortified town of Billy and the province of Bourbonnais were part of the domain of the lordship of the Bourbons. Both the castle and the lordship remained powerful until the French revolution (1789).
Architecture
The main fortification has an ovoid layout with a hexagonal watchtower which dominates the houses of the borough and the medieval streets that curve around the walls of the castle. An imposing châtelet guards the entrance. The southern curtain wall has a walkway that offers a splendid panorama of the Allier valley.
The castle is privately owned and open to the public. It has been listed since 1921 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

Château de Billy

Veauce Castle is a castle located in the territory of the municipality of Veauce in the Allier. This castle (the enclosure; the terrace facades and roofs of the whole, with the exception of those of the gatehouse) is the subject of a classification as historical monuments since August 30, 1985; the gatehouse, dating from the nineteenth century, was recorded in 1986; dependencies, namely the mansion of Nuts, the dovecote, the stud farm, the winery, dairy, home of the pack master and the kennel, were recorded in 2011.
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Château de Veauce

Château de Chouvigny is a castle at Chouvigny in the Sioule valley in the Allier département of France.
Location
The castle dominates the valley of the Sioule, at a spot where the gorges, called the gorges de Chouvigny, enlarge. It is approximately 300 metres south east of the town of Chouvigny. The road which climbs from the Sioule towards the town passes behind the castle and serves as its entrance.
History
The castle is the cradle of the Chauvigny family which by marriage in the 13th century became Chauvigny de Blot. At the start of the 15th century, the castle passed by marriage to the Montmorin family, then, with the marriage in 1543 of Françoise de Montmorin and Jean Motier de La Fayette, lord of Hautefeuille, to the family of La Fayette. In the 17th century, it belonged to the great-grandson of Jean, François de La Fayette; his wife, Madame de La Fayette, stayed there.
Under the Second Empire, Chouvigny belonged to the duc de Morny.
The castle is privately owned. Unusually, for such a structure, it is not listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.