15. La Mothe-Chandeniers Château
Place: France’s Vienne, Le Trois-Moutiers
Period: 1200s
Expense: $1.6 million
*Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers, an incredibly gorgeous castle in Les Trois-Moutiers, a commune in Vienne, France, is for sale; the attempt to buy it cost $1.6 million. Mothe-Chandeniers was a stronghold of the Baucay Family, the Lords of Loudun, back in the 1200s. It was taken a few times by the English during the horrific Hundred Years War.
France’s Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers ©Shutterstock/Silverbackstock
Mothe-Chandeniers was destroyed during the French Revolution. From the early 1900s until 1932, when a fire devastated the castle and left it abandoned, it was owned by several people. A French crowdsourcing project generated $1.6 million in 2017 to buy the castle and preserve it since it is a historically significant site that dates back centuries and shouldn’t be destroyed.
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