Château (Civ6)

Château
Introduced in Civilization VI
Unique to	French
Built by	Builder
Unlocked by	Humanism
Plunder	Faith
Effects
+2 Culture +1 Gold +1 Appeal +1 Culture for each adjacent wonder, increasing to +2 Culture (with Flight) +2 Gold if built on a River. Provides Tourism equal to its Culture output (Req. Flight) (Magnificence Catherine only) +2 Culture for improved Luxury resources adjacent to a Château or a Theater Square.
Improves
Terrain	Grassland  Grassland (Hills)  Grassland Floodplains  Plains  Plains (Hills)  Plains Floodplains  Desert  Desert (Hills)  Desert Floodplains  Tundra  Tundra (Hills)  Snow  Snow (Hills)

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The Château is a unique tile improvement of the French civilization in Civilization VI. It must be built adjacent to a Bonus or a Luxury Resource.

• Effects:
  • +2 Culture
  • +1 Gold
  • +1 Appeal
  • +1 Culture for each adjacent wonder, increasing to +2 Culture per wonder (with Flight)
  • +2 Gold if built on a River
  • Provides Tourism equal to its Culture output (with Flight)
  • (Magnificence Catherine only) +2 Culture for improved Luxury resources adjacent to a Château or a Theater Square.
• Restrictions:
  • Cannot be adjacent to another Château.

Strategy

The Château is a moderate improvement which works like similarly with Sphinx: Both provides Culture, Tourism and Appeal, can be built on most terrains (including Floodplains), can't be built adjacent to themselves, and get bonus from adjacent wonder. Comparing to Sphinx, Château is unlocked later, provides 1 less Appeal, provides Gold rather than Faith, has resource-adjacency restriction, buthas multiple wonder-adjacency bonus like a Theater Square and provides more Culture and Tourism, which works better towards a Cultural Victory. You should always try to bulid it next to a river and multiple wonders.

Civilopedia entry

If one must ask, one cannot afford it. A château is a manor house or country home of landed gentry, usually without fortifications. In the Middle Ages, a château was largely self-sufficient, being supported by the lord's demesne (hereditary lands). In the 1600s, the wealthy and aristocratic French lords dotted the countryside with elegant, luxuriant, architecturally refined mansions such as the Château de Maisons. But many of these stately homes were burned during peasant revolts and populist revolutions. But a few remain as tourist attractions. Today, the term château is loosely used; for instance, it is common for any winery or inn, no matter how humble, to prefix its name with "Château."

Gallery

Château in game

Historic Moment for building the Château

Related achievements

Loire Valley Create 5 Châteaux in one city with the Wine resource. The Loire Valley in France is famous for its Châteaux and its vineyards.