Costaérès Castle (France)

The term chateau is overused: it is in fact a large neo-medieval style mansion characteristic of the large holiday homes of the end of the 19th century on the pink granite coast.

The building, with a complex massing resulting from several extensions, is made of pink granite from the quarries of La Clarté, Perros-Guirec district. The roof is slate.

Its interior was designed with reclaimed wood from a three-master beached in winter 1896, the Mauritius.

The mansion was built on an islet bought by Bruno Abakanowicz (also called Bruno Abdank, who built a little later around 1896 the Bellevue hotel in Ploumanac'h), engineer and mathematician of Polish origin at the end of the summer 1892 to the customs officer René Le Brozec, a Perrosien who grew potatoes there and dried lichen and fish. The transaction at the time was 0.25 francs per square meter. It was completed around 1896 by the engineer Lanmoniez and the Lannionnais entrepreneur Pierre Le Tensorer2.

After 1900, the date of the owner's death, his daughter, Sofia Abakanowicz, who had become Madame Poray, had the villa extended by a wing to the west in return on the rear facade.

During the Second World War, the villa was requisitioned by the German army, and suffered some interior damage.

Following roofing work, on September 6, 1990, a fire partially destroyed the interior of the building.

The image of this castle on its islet is often used to illustrate postcards and tourist guides of the Côte de granit rose, Côtes-d'Armor and Brittany.