The Château de la Verrerie is a castle in Aubigny-sur-Nère, Cher, France.
History
It was built at the end of the 15th century.
It was acquired by Léonce de Vogüé, a politician, in 1842. His grandson, Louis de Vogüé, hired architect Ernest Sanson, to extend it in 1892.
Architectural signifiance
It has been listed as an official historical monument by the French Ministry of Culture since 1987.

Château de la Verrerie (Cher)

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Le château des Stuarts, ou château d’Aubigny, est un château situé sur la commune d'Aubigny-sur-Nère, dans le département du Cher.
Le château fait l’objet d’un classement au titre des monuments historiques par la liste de 1862.
Histoire
L'édifice tire son nom de Robert Stuart d'Aubigny qui le fit construire au début du xvie siècle.
Plusieurs modifications et restaurations seront faites au xviie siècle et xixe siècle.
Il est actuellement utilisé comme hôtel de ville et comme musée.

Château des Stuarts

Domaine de Rochevilaine, "key" location of the old route of pewter, is a place where the Phoenicians are said to have bought and transported the necessary pewter to copper smelters producing bronze, which was the universal material back then. They probably were its first hosts.
Many years later, in the 13th century, Jean the 1st Duke of Brittany founded the abbey of Prayers in Pen Lan. It was offered to the Cistercian monks so they could pray night and day for their founder and... for the sailors' souls that would wreck on that dangerous coast, hence its name of Prayers. Rochevilaine still has a lookout post from that time, which is part of the abbey property, it is contiguous to a circular turret used to stock powders (wine today!).
In the 19th century, Pen Lan will have a very active economic life. It is the peak of the "white gold" salt marshes, whose production was once implemented by the abbey of Prayers' monks. Furthermore, the coastal fishing fleet stimulates the little port.
Even more recently, different blocks from the "Atlantic wall" were set up in this strategic location - cannon platforms, underground shelters... Rochevilaine remembers those fortifications as there are so many underground.
After the 2nd world conflict, only a memory represented by abandoned walls was left.
Henri Dresch, engineer and industrialist, buys the place in 1952. He started clearing, cleaning the place and "fixing up" the Viscount's house, an old 19th century resort villa that the war reduced to ruins, to open a hostel in 1956 that will be featured in the Michelin Guide from 1958. Thus, step by step, an unusual kind of hotel emerged.
Two manors in the inland were transported stone by stone - one from the 15th century, the other one from the 16th... Then a monumental 13th century porch was added. Henri Dresch will leave an amazing architectural complex.
A few difficult years will pass before Jean-Pierre Liégeois, a doctor, who was sensitive to the place's energies, happily starts building a real full-granite castle - named Aqua Phénicia - and flooded with light through an inner canopy.
In 1997, after getting a solid reputation of hôtelier restaurateur and developing a very important hotel group in France and Europe, Bertrand Jaquet, with his wealth of experience, runs the Rochevilaine ship and paradoxically becomes its first hotel owner.
Wise, innovating, man of action and passion, Bertrand Jaquet is in line with the founder, Henri Dresch. His choices are always driven by posterity's sake. His daughter Cécile Nouail Jaquet and his son-in-law Maxime Nouail have been working with him for several years.
As a pioneer, Bertrand Jaquet builds the first French Spa in the Rochevilaine Domain in 1997. The notion of "sea spa" was born!
In 2004, this Breton hotel jewel successfully returns to the prestigious international organization Relais & Châteaux. It must be noted that he is one of their oldest members in the whole Birttany region, since he appeared in the Relais de Campagne guide from 1961, which was the former international grouping.
https://domainerochevilaine.com/en/the-domaine.html

Château de Rochevilaine

Situated in a 50-acre park, including 5 acres of gardens on the border of the Sologne region, Blancafort Castle is 30 minutes away from Sancerre and its wineries, 15 minutes from numerous activities such as : riding, golf, water skiing, swimming, windsurfing, and fishing, and 5mm away from the Museum of Witchcraft. 
Erected in the 15th Century by the de Boucard family on the site of an ancient Seigniory already existing in the 11th Century, and later transformed in the 17th Century, this handsome brick fortified house rises above the Sauldre canal in a pleasant surrounding enhanced by a French style garden. The castle, a private residence, houses beautiful furnishings and tapestries from the 17th and 18th Centuries.
http://www.chateaux-france.com/chateau-de-blancafort/

Château de Blancafort

An enigma surrounds the château de Beaujeu. Indeed, nobody knows why the Ménil-Simon family, during the XIVth century abandoned the old property they inherited near the village of Neuilly-En-Sancerre, by different alliances, and constructed the new Beaujeu on the other side of the Sauldre valley, at the bottom of the Sens hill.
The château which has a stone dated 1566 and the name of Jean du Ménil-Simon, consists of a long regular house between 2 big round towers that jut out from the south facade. Two aisles have been built from these towers.
Maybe this transfer is due to the charm of the verdant place, with its large lawn which slopes down gently to the river in the small valley.
Historical presentation
Well restored at the beginning of the XIXth century by Pierre-Maurice de Pommereau who bought it from the queen Marie-Antoinette's lady-in-waiting, the château is not the only interesting building.
The out-building which borders the access courtyard, in the extension of the limetree alley are very nice as well. Indeed, all the doors are framed with an alternate of white stones and black sandstones. Covered with roofing tiles which contrast with the château slates, the out-building contains the biggest dove-cot in the area.
Then, do we have to think about the "new" Beaujeu or fall under the charm of the place.
At the old Beaujeu, only ruins and memory full of mysteries survived because people say that the niece of Richelieu used to live there.
https://www.chateau-de-beaujeu.com