Origins
The castle was underwent many modifications between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Some of the original twelfth-century fortifications have survived and been modernised but the fort situated at the heart of the castle no longer exists. In its place stand the immense main building and round tower of a sixteenth-century stately home with a Renaissance exterior.

What to See
Notable features include eighteenth-century furniture, the sixteenth-century St Epine chapel, the Aubusson tapestries and a twelfth-century staircase leading down to the cellars. Local portraits hang in the rooms and the tower houses a library. The sixteenth-century chapel situated on a level with the western ramparts is decorated with unusual life-size stone figures. It is also home to the St Epine which an ancestor of the Pontbriant family took from the body of the english General Talbot killed at the battle of Castillon in 1453 and which, for a long time, brought pilgrims to Montréal. The magnificent twelfth-century vaulted underground gallery can also be visited.