Yonne
Arrondissement of Auxerre
Treigny

Guédelon Castle

Guédelon Castle is a castle under construction near , . The castle is the focus of an experimental archaeology project aimed at recreating a 13th-century castle and its environment using period techniques, dress, and materials.
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  • Type: Theme park
  • Description: rebuilt medieval castle in France
  • Also known as: “Chantier Medieval de Guedelon”, “Chantier Médiéval de Guédelon”, and “Guedelon Castle”
  • Wheelchair access: limited

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Boutissaint and Château de Ratilly.

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is situated 2½ km west of Guédelon Castle.

Art gallery
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is an art gallery, which is situated 3½ km south of Guédelon Castle.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Guédelon Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moutiers-en-Puisaye and Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye.

Village
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is a commune in the department in in north-central , in the historical region of Puisaye. The parish church is dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. is situated 3½ km northeast of Guédelon Castle.

Village
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is a commune in the north-central French department of . It is located in an area historically known as Puisaye. In the early 1970s the Château de la Folie, north of the village was home to one of the "Maharishi's Science of Creative Intelligence" projects. is situated 5 km northeast of Guédelon Castle.

Village
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is a former commune in the department in in north-central . On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Treigny-Perreuse-Sainte-Colombe. is situated 6 km east of Guédelon Castle.

Guédelon Castle

Latitude
47.58324° or 47° 34′ 60″ north
Longitude
3.15547° or 3° 9′ 20″ east
Elevation
262 metres (860 feet)
Open location code
8FV5H5M4+75
Open­Street­Map ID
way 112679782
Open­Street­Map feature
attraction=­medieval_art
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­theme_park
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­limited
Geo­Names ID
8015559
Wiki­data ID
Q1557685
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Guédelon Castle” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Guedelon”
  • Arabic: “قلعة غويديلون”
  • Arabic: “قلعه غويديلون”
  • Catalan: “castell de Guédelon”
  • Catalan: “Castell de Guédelon”
  • Catalan: “Guédelon”
  • Chinese: “蓋德隆堡”
  • Czech: “Guédelon”
  • Danish: “Guédelon”
  • Dutch: “Guedelon”
  • Dutch: “Guédelon”
  • Dutch: “Kasteel van Guedelon”
  • Dutch: “Kasteel van Guédelon”
  • Esperanto: “Guédelon”
  • Finnish: “Guédelon linna”
  • French: “Chantier médiéval de Guédelon”
  • French: “château de Guédelon”
  • French: “Guédelon”
  • French: “Le Guédelon”
  • German: “Burg Guedelon”
  • German: “Burg Guédelon”
  • German: “Guedelon”
  • German: “Guédelon”
  • Italian: “castello di Guédelon”
  • Italian: “Castello di Guédelon”
  • Japanese: “ゲドロン城”
  • Korean: “게델롱성”
  • Korean: “게들롱성”
  • Latvian: “Gedelonas pils”
  • Limburgan: “Guédelon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guédelon”
  • Norwegian: “Guédelon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guédelon”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo de Guédelon”
  • Portuguese: “O castelo de Guedelon”
  • Russian: “Геделон”
  • Serbian: “Дворац Геделон”
  • Spanish: “Castillo Guédelon”
  • Spanish: “Guedelon”
  • Spanish: “Guédelon”
  • Swedish: “slottet Guédelon”
  • Ukrainian: “château de Guédelon”
  • Ukrainian: “Guédelon”
  • Ukrainian: “Геделон”
  • Ukrainian: “замок Геделон”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Guédelon Castle”. Photo: Christophe.Finot, CC BY-SA 3.0.