Building a castle using the technology and materials of the Middle Ages in the North of Burgundy. In what once was a quarry, craftsmen have moved in to build a 13th century castle using the technology of those times. Everything is produced on site with the skills of only those craftsmen. Some are pictured here.
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Guedelon first view
The crane
Dye makers pots
Dye colours from ocre and rhubarb
Woodsman making tiles
Woodsman making tiles 2
Info board
Demo tiles on roof
Clay tiles drying
Communual oven being buillt
Oven roof in consruction
Carpenters tools
Carpenters shed view
Inside the walls
Enter a tower
Block laying
Spectators
Lifting machinery
Tower awaiting a roof
Room decor
Decoration on the wall
Inside the roof
Laying more blockwork
Stonemason
Demo of planning
Drawing tools
Floor detail
Ceiling detail
The bakers shop
Stone carved awaiting frame and glass
Tower nearly finished
Fine carving
Roofless tower
The gate
Magnificent crane again
Gate and it’s towers
Gate and it’s towers
Drawbridge goes here
Moat goes here
Blacksmith and forge
Outside of the chateau
Rear showing crenellations
Info board
Carved using trad methods
Blocks nearly ready
Template and finished stone
Handcart
Back door? No a killing place
Final look at a finished tower