a genuine encounter with expert craftsmen and craftswomen

Set in over 7 hectares of woodland, the world of Guédelon is made up of three large areas:

• the castle and construction crafts
• the village with the tile makers’ workshop, the dyers’ and painters’ shop, stables and animals
• the forest and mill

Explore the eleven different trades on the construction site, the castle and the hydraulic water mill. 

Watch the artisans at work; take time to talk with them and learn about their work.

Guédeon is a working construction site and demonstrations do not take place at set times. The team works according to the real demands on the construction site; if craftsmen is not in their workshop when you first pass, come back a little later, they may have been momentarily called to another part of the site.

A visit to Guédelon is different from season-to-season. Activity on site is never exactly the same from one day to the next. When visitors declare that they will return when the castle is finished, we tell them “that will be too late”! Guédelon is always changing, always evolving.