Château de Saveilles

On the borders of the Charente, Charente-Maritime and Deux-Sèvres, halfway between Niort and Angoulême, on the territory of the town of Paizay-Naudouin, next to the village of Paizay-Naudouin, stands since the XIVth century, Chateau of Saveilles, combining the characteristics of a castle and a palace.

Despite the ravages of the French Revolution and time, a multitude of sculptures and dormers adorned with mythological subjects, loopholes and arrow slits, battlements and a nineteenth century chapel remain.

Of this Renaissance chateau, we admire today, the remaining four dormers on the ten that originally lit the attic of the castle, decorated with mythological subjects, both small mullioned windows, carved, to the left of the front door,  the carved chimney stack which dominates the roof of the main building to the east, the Hercules statuette holding his club at the north gable and the carved top of a window that lit the hall of justice above the entrance pavilion now defunct, and overcomes the gate of the garden.