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castello di Allymes

Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Italy

castello di Allymes

The Château des Allymes is a thirteenth-century castle which was rebuilt in the sixteenth century and restored in the nineteenth. It is located in the hamlet of Les Allymes, in the Ambérieu-en-Bugey commune in the Ain department of France, in the Rhône-Alpes region. The castle was built by the Dauph

in of Viennois to protect the people from attacks that were ravaging the country. It is approached by the hamlet of Brey-de-Vent, and is the only example of a medieval fortress in Bugey. On 20 July 1960 the Château des Allymes was classed a monument historique.

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