Guédelon, a crazy project
Michel Guyot came up with the idea after being inspired by an archelogical study of his chateau, the Chateau de Saint-Fargeau in Puisaye. "Let's build a chateau using 13th-century methods!" It only took a few months to find some partners. They decided to build in the Guédelon forest near Saint-Fargeau (Burgundy), organized a small team of workers and the first stone was laid on June 20, 1997. A year later, it opened for visitors.
Guédelon a teaching and tourist project
The pedagogical and recreational construction site attracted 220,000 visitors in 2004, 80,000 of which were children. It is the most visited paid-entrance tourist site in the Yonne department and the second in the region of Burgundy.