This is the actual key to the Chateau de Cadillac
Today, we woke up late… really, really late. So we ate lunch, and decided what to do for the day. Go to the Chateau de Cadillac, and the vineyards. The Chateau de Cadillac, was built in the 1500’s to be a Chateau for the governor of several provinces. 
After the French revolution the family fled, and the chateau was plundered and it became a women’s prison in 1818. What’s cool is that someone in my family ancestry lived in 
the castle at some point. In the picture, my mom is pointing to the name of the ancestor. 
We saw more the cool castles… or “Chateau’s”, and old villages, and a really old Medieval Fortress. That was really neat, but totally falling apart. When we got there, we walked up to the door that had 2 signs. One said “private property”, and other “historical landmark”. We were perplexed, but took a few pictures, then a car drove up. It was the 
man who lives there. He told us (I think) that he lived there while it was in the process of renovation. He was very nice and told us we could walk around the building to get closer looks. There was also a great view of the vineyards in the back of the fortress. They were not the only vineyards, there were vineyards everywhere you looked. Most of the chateaus were associated with a vineyard, and had modern apartments built into the walled fortress near by. It seemed so strange to see so many small apartments, and a gi-normous (by comparison) chateau right near by. We took, lots of pictures, but they just don’t do justice to the real thing.
After the French revolution the family fled, and the chateau was plundered and it became a women’s prison in 1818. What’s cool is that someone in my family ancestry lived in the castle at some point. In the picture, my mom is pointing to the name of the ancestor. We saw more the cool castles… or “Chateau’s”, and old villages, and a really old Medieval Fortress. That was really neat, but totally falling apart. When we got there, we walked up to the door that had 2 signs. One said “private property”, and other “historical landmark”. We were perplexed, but took a few pictures, then a car drove up. It was the man who lives there. He told us (I think) that he lived there while it was in the process of renovation. He was very nice and told us we could walk around the building to get closer looks. There was also a great view of the vineyards in the back of the fortress. They were not the only vineyards, there were vineyards everywhere you looked. Most of the chateaus were associated with a vineyard, and had modern apartments built into the walled fortress near by. It seemed so strange to see so many small apartments, and a gi-normous (by comparison) chateau right near by. We took, lots of pictures, but they just don’t do justice to the real thing.
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