NORTHERN BURGUNDY, France — Deep in a forest of France's Burgundy region, a group of enthusiasts is building a medieval castle the old-fashioned way — that is, with tools and methods from the late ...

France has more than 45,000 châteaux around the country, from 9th-century palaces to 21st-century castles that were built for a number of reasons. Of all these properties, primarily built to fortify ...

In Burgundy, a monument unique in the world is rising stone by stone as if you were in the Middle Ages. Under construction since 1997, what is known as Guédelon Castle is now the most recent castle ...

In the old quarter of a Breton town, a routine construction project turned into a rare encounter with the Middle Ages. Beneath the courtyard of a working hotel, archaeologists uncovered the stone ...

Archaeologists in Vannes unearthed the ruins of an elaborate castle and moat built in the 1380s by a duke and later abandoned, photos show. Photo from Emmanuelle Collado and Inrap Archaeologists had ...

Construction is afoot at Guédelon castle, in France's northern Burgundy region, where builders and crafts people are using tools and methods from the Middle Ages. (Cristina Baussan for NPR) NORTHERN ...

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