Tags: Military Structure.
The Château de Fougères is a castle in the commune of Fougères in the Ille-et-Vilaine département of France. The castle was built on a naturally protected site a rock emerging from a swamp surrounded by a loop of the Nançon river acting as a natural moat. It had three different enclosures first for defensive purposes second for day to day usages in peacetime and for safety of the surrounding populations in times of siege the last enclosure was where the keep was situated.
