Château de Plessis-lez-Tours

The royal Château de Plessis-lèz-Tours (French pronunciation: [ʃato də plɛsi le tuʁ]) is the remains of a late Gothic château located in the town of La Riche in the Indre-et-Loire department, in the Loire Valley of France.

The present building is only a small part of the château originally built by Louis XI in the 15th century.

The first floor has paintings and sculpture devoted to St. Francis of Paola, whom Louis XI summoned to live near him until his death.

[1] Inside the château is a display of iron cages which were suspended from the ceiling and used to hold prisoners.

The remaining wing, which had long been used as a dairy farm and a buckshot factory, has been listed as a monument historique since 1927 by the French Ministry of Culture.