Guédelon, the ultimate in grand design

Guédelon, illuminating the Middle Ages

Guédelon, learning from experience

A dream becomes reality

Guédelon, an act of folly

Guédelon, a shared passion

Hands-on learning

Guédelon, experimental archaeology in action

Guédelon, living history

A shared passion

Guédelon, passing on knowledge

Guédelon, a journey through time

an archeaological challenge

Guédelon’s woodsmen, carpenters, stonemasons and blacksmiths have built from scratch a working reproduction of a medieval hydraulic water mill.
This mill is the fruit of three years collaboration with the archaeologists from Inrap: French National Institute for preventative archaeological research. The mill is based on the archaeological remains of a 12th-century water mill found at Thevray in Jura.

milling our daily bread

Following the same logic used in the castle-construction, all the different crafts on site worked together with the aim of producing the same quality of flour as that found in the Middle Ages. Set in a woodland clearing, just a stone’s throw from the construction site, you can now visit this working mill.

On certain dates, our baker offers you the chance to taste bread made with Guédelon-ground flour and baked in the castle’s bread oven. Please consult our calendar for details.

a long-running partnership with Inrap

After the success of the mill project, we renewed our collaboration with Inrap in 2015 with the building of a working lime kiln. A lime burn lasts 72 hours round the clock and produces up to 11 tonnes of slcaked non-hydraulic lime.

Please consult our calender for details.

Practical information

How to find us

Guédelon is 2 hours south of Paris, in Yonne, in Northern Burgundy.
The site is on the D955 road between the towns of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye and Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye.

Guédelon is 1 hour 45 minutes from Orléans, 2 hours from Dijon, 1 hour and 20 minutes from Bourges.

Guédelon D 955 89520 Treigny – FRANCE
+33 (0)3 86 45 66 66
guedelon.fr
guedelon@guedelon.fr