A fortified castle was already built as early as the Xlle century on the hillside of Mussy at the very place where the Vercingetorix reinforcing troups had gathered before laying siege to Alesia.
As a very rare testimony of the small military architecture in the Middle-age, the maison forte encloses a fort dating back to the XIIIe century, called the peep-hole tower, which reveals the defensive character of this fine architecture comple.
Knight Ponce of Mussy host duk Eudes in 1316.
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But, along with the Renaissance the lords of Mussy have a more delightful home built in the vicinith and you will be enchanted to enjoy 3 large bedrooms and to discover the rest of the property: its orchard and its pigeon-loft whith its 1840 holes, which prouved the importance of the fief before the french revolution.
The ancient ditches have been filled up whith earth and can, now be used for bowls, croquet or skittle parties.
