"It was built between 1250 and 1270 on the initiative of Guichard IV and / or Humbert de Beaujeu, Seigneurs de Montpensier, probably from a 13th century watchtower before the post of the mighty castle of Montpensier perched on a hill Which controlled the access to the plain of Limagne.
La Roche was erected in fief in the fifteenth century for Louis de Bosderon, and were built a house because of simple fortification it becomes a manor house.
The castle then returned to Jean de l'Hospital, counselor to Charles de Bourbon, Count of Montpensier and then to his son, Chancellor Michel de L'Hospital, who was born there. He transformed it in the 16th century, built a second wall with two towers on the south facade and his family kept it until the eighteenth century.
A fortified enclosure in the form of a horseshoe built around 1250 composed of a first oval tower at the end of the ravine exposed North, then a circular donjon exposed South. The current rectangular dungeon was built in the 14th century on the foundations of the circular keep very damaged as a result of the siege of the fortress at the end of the Hundred Years War.
The house and the other buildings were built in the 15th century, leaning against the enclosure surmounted by a walkway and distributed around a courtyard. A second enclosure built in the 16th century, with parts of the walls and two round towers topped by battlements and recent machicolations, housed the poultry yard, and a ditch formed the outer defense
A private residence, the Château belonged to the descendants of Vivant de Villedieu, Marquis de Torcy and Rosey (1754-1795), the last dean of the Parliament of Burgundy, a cousin of Minister Vergennes who hired France alongside the Americans during the War Of Independence.
For some years, the Castle welcomes those who wish to stay in a house of great character. Privilege hitherto exclusively reserved for the members and relations of the owners.
Dates and times of visits: Open every day from May to October from 9 am to noon and from 2 pm to 6:30 pm. The rest of the year on R.V."