Holidays at the castle! Spacious apartment!

Stay in a real 12th-century castle, fifteen minutes from Uzès. Enjoy a unique experience in the heart of history. Two apartments are available, here is the second: airbnb.com/h/chateaudecastelnauvalence Welcome to the Château de Castelnau for a dive into history, in the heart of a hamlet located 15 minutes from Uzès. Authenticity and serenity! During your stay, a visit to the Tower, with its panoramic view allowing you to discover 64 villages, will be scheduled together. The space THE APARTMENT The apartment consists of a kitchen, two bedrooms, a living room (with a single bed for a fifth person if necessary) and a bathroom (via the large bedroom) and can accommodate you for à la carte stays in complete privacy: For a romantic weekend as well as a week for a self-contained stay. Ideal for a family or two couples, self-contained with its two bedrooms, living room, and bathroom with walk-in shower (from the large bedroom, you have to go through the bedroom to get to the bathroom). The kitchen will allow you to enjoy the treasures from the local Uzès market for lunch or dinner on the private terrace or in the shared garden. A swing and sunbeds are available. The shared garden is located where the swing and the barbecue are. BOTH BEDROOMS The unique decoration of each offers authenticity and modernity with great attention to detail. They have a wide openness to nature. The Marquis de Valfons' room with its silk canopy opens onto the grounds of the castle. The Marquise de Valfons' room with its white tulle canopy is equipped with a double bed and a crib for children. 15 km from Uzès, the first Duchy of France, in the middle of a park and vineyards, the Château de Castelnau offers a stay that combines the qualities of a cottage with the personality of a private residence in order to make you make the most of the discovery of the Region. A few kilometers from the river Le Gardon, Castelnau Castle is a haven of peace, a mix of cheerfulness and happiness, combining quality with the charm of an intimate and refined address to feel in harmony with yourself in an exclusive atmosphere. Regarding the geographical location, the castle is as close to the Cevennes as it is to the Camargue which will allow you to carry out many sports, artistic, cultural activities.... For a three-day stay, you can discover our Golden Triangle: 📍 Day 1 — Uzès & Pont du Gard (20–25 minutes) 🚗 Drive Château → Uzès: ~20 min 🏛️ Morning: Uzès (2.5 to 3 hours) Place aux Herbes (market on Saturdays) Duchy of Uzès + Bermonde Tower Fenestrelle Tower Medieval Historic Center 🍴 Noon Lunch on Place aux Herbes 🌉 Afternoon: Pont du Gard (~15 min) Pont du Gard Bridge walk Swimming / Canoeing Museum 👉 Perfect for the end of the day 🌿 Day 2 — Cévennes: Bambouseraie & Musée du Désert (30 minutes) 🚗 Drive Château → Bamboo Grove in the Cévennes: ~30 minutes 🎋 Morning: Bamboo Grove (2 hours) Giant bamboos Japanese garden Laotian village Redwoods Plant labyrinth 🍴 Noon Lunch in Anduze 🏞️ Afternoon Cevennes Road Desert Museum (1.5 hours) 👉 River swimming option 🏛️ Day 3 — Nîmes & Roman heritage (25 min) 🚗 Drive Château → Nîmes: ~25 min 🏟️ Morning: Historic Center (3 hours) Arènes de Nîmes Maison Carrée Tour Magne Gardens of the Fountain 🍴 Noon Downtown 🏺 Afternoon Strolling / shopping 👉 Option: Pont du Gard Examples of children's amusement parks and activities: Haribo Museum in Uzes (20 min) Green Parc la ferme enchantée à Saint Chaptes (10 min) Amigoland au Grau du Roi (45 min) Canoeing in Collias (20 min) Bamboo grove in Anduze (30 min) Mialet Desert Museum (45 min) Pont du Gard (30 min) Examples of swimming spots: Water park in Serviers and Labaume (15 minutes) Mediterranean Sea (45 min) Gardon in Ners (15 minutes), Anduze (30 minutes), Collias (20 minutes), Mialet (45 minutes)... Must See Spots: Uzès: First Duchy of France (15 mins) Nîmes: museums, Feria ... (20 min) Avignon: festival, Palace of the Popes (1h) Etc. Short history of Castelnau Castle Etienne Boileau, provost of Paris and author of the Livres des Métiers, accompanied King Saint Louis during the Crusades of the 12th century. Her statue is on the Hôtel de Ville de Paris. His descendants, ennobled by Charles V in 1371 took possession of the Vicomte de Saint Felix of Castelnau Castle in 1500. Since that time, it still belongs to the same family whose members have held high positions. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes results in the departure of almost the entire family abroad, with the exception of Maurice Boileau de Castelnau who retains property and titles. During the period of camisards, the castle served as a refuge for Pierre Laporte, known as Rolland, leader of the Huguenots. His death sounded the end of the religious wars. A stele commemorates his death. The family of Valfons had as its chef the Vicomte de Sebourg created Marquis de Valfons de la Calmette by Louis XV after the Battle of Fontenoy. In 1836, Valfons' family took possession of the castle by the marriage of Gabrielle Boileau de Castelnau with the Marquis of Valfons. Their descendants still own the Château, which has been in the same family for 526 years, working to share this historical heritage. Guest access 90 m2 apartment on the first floor of the castle. The entrance door is in the castle tower. Fully equipped kitchen, living/dining room, two bedrooms, one bathroom with walk-in shower (accessible via the large bedroom). 80-m² (860-sq-ft) suspended terrace Shared garden of 600sqm with BBQ and garden furniture Other things to note This includes board games and a library with books in French and English. No heating and air conditioning. You have to go through the big bedroom to get to the bathroom. The lack of Wi-Fi in our accommodation will allow you to disconnect for a few days. You can still connect via 4G or 5G on your cell phone. 🟦🟨 KITCHEN MEMO – ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 1. COOKTOP (CHILD SAFETY) If the screen shows “Lo”: lock enabled ➡️ Press and hold the padlock button for 3 seconds ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚿 2. HOT WATER Hot water takes about 3 minutes to come on (large building). ➡️ Turn on the faucet (pull the lever towards you) ➡️ Wait for hot water to come out ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧽 3. CLEANLINESS / ENVIRONMENT Country house: possible presence of ants ➡️ Thoroughly clean up all crumbs ➡️ Do not leave any food on the countertop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ 4. ELECTRICITY METER Located in the white kitchen cupboard ➡️ To be used only in the event of a power outage ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ 5. WASHING MACHINE – No. 5 Main button on the right (largest) ➡️ Pull the button towards you to turn on the machine ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍽️ 6. DISHWASHER For spotless dishes: ➡️ Intensive cycle at 160 °F (70 °C) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 7. CUPBOARD Lockable sideboard ➡️ You'll find all household products there (stored under lock and key) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔️ Please respect the premises and leave the kitchen clean after use