Château de Vougy, Historic castle in Vougy and Pouilly-sous-Charlieu, France.

Château de Vougy is a 17th-century château straddling the communes of Vougy and Pouilly-sous-Charlieu in the Loire department. Its Louis XV facade has a central block with two rows of windows, a triangular pediment over three arched doors, and steep grey slate roofs with dormer windows; two square pavilions with pointed slate roofs close the ends. The left wing holds an orangery, press, stables, cellars and barns.

The château de Vougy stands in the Loire department, not the Loire valley: it was built in the 17th century on the site of a maison forte, with the central block erected from 1736 to 1748 for Jean-Marie Michon de la Farge, a royal squire wounded at Ettingen in 1743. Louis XV later made his son Jean-Louis seigneur de Vougy and raised his lands to a county. The comte Michon de Vougy restored the building at the end of the 19th century, keeping its 18th-century setting.

Inside, the vestibule holds an equestrian portrait of King Henri IV from the early 17th-century French school, said to come from the Château de La Bastie d'Urfé, along with two Rouen faience roof finials and a white marble antique sarcophagus 2.20 m long and 80 cm high, carved with strigils and two lion heads. The dining room, small salon, great chamber, grand salon and Chinese salon follow, plus a tapestry salon typical of the 1880s.

The château stands north of Vougy on the RD 482 towards Pouilly-sous-Charlieu, straddling the two communes. The listed ensemble takes in the entrance gate and grille, the moats, the cour d'honneur, the two outbuildings flanking it, and the landscaped park to the north with its paths, water features, groves and canal.

The last Count of Vougy served as mayor for five decades until 1885 and significantly influenced the region's political life. His extended tenure tied the castle closely to the community and its development.