This is the only remaining vestige of the castle built in the 15th century. It is the gatehouse with its two round towers.
Philip Augustus laid siege to the castle and captured it in 1188. It was awarded to Richard the Lionheart in 1189 at the Treaty of Azay-le-Rideau and returned to the King of France in 1199 when Berry was finally reunited with France.
During the Hundred Years' War, the castle suffered extensive damage. Bertrand de la Tour d'Auvergne and his wife, lords of Levroux, undertook its repairs. The mutilated shields represented their coat of arms: an anchored cross and a gonfanon (a quadrangular piece of cloth, like the banner, or ending in points) with three pendants.
The castle was owned by Catherine de Medici and popular legend has it that she lost her engagement ring there, which has never been found to this day.