Virieu

We drove to the Chateau de Virieu today, which is only forty minutes away. It was unfortunately closed, but we walked around and took in the sights. Another beautiful fairy tale castle: ho hum!





The main door to the castle is impressive

But no match for the marauding children

Actually, I don't really understand why they went to such effort to produce a door like that. I would expect a battering ram to be metal, or have a metal head, so the spikes would not be much use there. Except for discouraging people from pummeling the door with their fists or throwing a shoulder into it, I just don't get it. Maybe they would run up behind attackers, shove them and impale them on the spikes?