Chateau de Fontager

The origins are very Fontager Old, can still be found on site remains as old as the fifth century BC and remains of pottery 4000 years old soon.
Indeed, ideally situated on the banks of the Rhone, natural way of infiltration through the ages, Fontager has always been a step Fame.
The legend attached to Castle Fontager is that Pontius Pilate had lived in this place. According to Eusebius of Caesarea, Christian historian of the late third century, Pontius Pilate was sent in disgrace in Gaul in AD 37. He was governor of the city of Vienna and they say he committed suicide in the year 39 by jumping off a tower in the Rhone. Some acknowledged that tower in Vienna, others Fontager.
The village takes its name Ponsas Pontius Pilate. This appears likely, Fontager is at a stage of Vienna and the ruins of a Roman villa in the still significant remaining area of the park. On the other hand, the Castle itself is built on the walls of a fortified house Roman walls still visible in the cellars, reaching 2.30 m thick.
                    
Many discoveries were made in the grounds of the Castle or in its immediate vicinity. In 1962, in particular, has been updated a necropolis containing some forty graves (of which more than 20 coffins made of flat tiles with rounded edges) enclosing skeletons with the usual furnishings: funerary vases, plates.
Coins found either in the mouth, or buried in the orbit can, to fix the date of death (I, llth, III).
The precious relics of Gallo-Roman are frequently found: scrap marble, vases, statues, sarcophagi, and even finely carved in high relief, prove that this place was a beautiful Roman remains                                                              

Different eras have marked the construction of Château.Les basement walls are from Roman times, the towers of the XII century, the former
reception and lounge adjacent took place in the chapel of the Castle with gothic vaults are probably not flamboyant XIII century, the staircase is the fourteenth century.
Other parts date from the seventeenth century and eighteenth century, others are recent. Among the discoveries one of them has been made through the "Book of Mr Reason Vaucance. "Telling his wife, born in Gruel Madelaine and her little daughter, born November 9, 1584, suffering from fever, died after eight days of illness, a Sunday in August 1586 at noon, and were buried in front of the barn at the foot of a wooden cross. Excavations have uncovered two skeletons.

Among the famous guests of Fontager, is Diane de Poitiers, born in 1499 in St Vallier, and residing at the Chateau de Saint Vallier, came on horseback to visit his cousins Vaucance                          

Over the centuries many people have succeeded to the castle:
XIII Century: Lancelot Briord
Fourteenth century: William of Gruel
Fifteenth century and the end of the sixteenth century: Christophe Chatelard, Earl of Vernoux.
1830: Do Fleet Roquevaire
1856: Jean louis Boissieu.

Castle Fontager Pilate and was transformed into a hotel with character, beyond the usual atmosphere where everyone can enjoy without the customary easements classic hotels.
Then Baron Jean Joseph Croze and Madame de la Messardiere leave the castle to the abbot of Quincy in the early twentieth. The latter sold it to Mrs. Robin whose daughter married the Earl of Bruno Fernex Mongex, the nephew of the Abbot of Quincy!
In 1989, the family estate was acquired by Danish investors.
Over the centuries many people have succeeded to the castle:
XIII Century: Lancelot Briord
Fourteenth century: William of Gruel
Fifteenth century and the end of the sixteenth century: Christophe Chatelard, Earl of Vernoux.
1830: Do Fleet Roquevaire
1856: Jean louis Boissieu.

Castle Fontager Pilate and was transformed into a hotel with character, beyond the usual atmosphere where everyone can enjoy without the customary easements classic hotels.
Then Baron Jean Joseph Croze and Madame de la Messardiere leave the castle to the abbot of Quincy in the early twentieth. The latter sold it to Mrs. Robin whose daughter married the Earl of Bruno Fernex Mongex, the nephew of the Abbot of Quincy!
In 1989, the family estate was acquired by Danish investors.
Major renovations have made the castle its current cachet Hotel-Restaurant and seminars held
                                               
Dignac Annie and her team will be happy to welcome you and make you discover this place full of history.