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The medieval castle Dessessart has over 1000 years of history and is one of the largest civil and military heritage castral department. The motte date of the tenth century, the gatehouse of the twelfth century, the imposing square tower - called Saracen - the thirteenth century, the Renaissance home of the sixteenth century. In the nineteenth century a new castle was built nearby, all located in a landscaped park designed by the famous brothers Buhler, chief architects of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. The castle was the possession of the largest families of Poitou and France: Apremont, Chabot, Vivonne, Penthièvre, Luxembourg, Mercoeur, Savoy-Nemours, Lespinay, Red. John X, Duke of Brittany, has been captured year 1420, Henry would stay overnight, and finally the brothers Guillery and 400 robbers, heroes of the famous nursery rhyme, it would have prevailed in the early seventeenth century.