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 | This castle was owned by Maurice Hermann, Comte de Saxe and Maréchal de France in 1748. Numerous memories of this great man remains in the galleries and specially battle and games scenes by Chevalier from designs by La Touche.
It was finally owned by Baron Gourgaud after Napoleon's death.
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 | Built in 1597 by Henri IV's Financial superintendant Nicolas de harlay, THis castle was owned afterwards under the reign of Louis XIII by Charles de Valois Which finalized the actual design.
After the french revolution it was owned by Barras, one the the Directoire's leaders and at last by Maréchal Berthier who gave the castle his napoleonian touch.
It's now a great equestrian cen... |  | 01/16/2006 | 150 |
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 | Alexandre Dumas' House
Thanks to the success of the Three Musketeers (les Trois Mousquetaires), Alexandre Dumas builds his small romantic castle (a "folie" as usually said for this kind of building) in the close countryside which borders Paris in 1847. It will be known as the Castle of Monte-Cristo and is located at Port-Marly. This eccentric residence was built in a ... | | 01/16/2006 | 183 |
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 | The fortress of Gisors is primarily famous for its bonds with the history of Templiers. Entrusted to the guard of the latter by the king of France Louis VII of 1158 to 1160, it became also the prison of the last main head of the Order, Jacques de Molay, in 1314. What to form a legend! | | 01/16/2006 | 123 |
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 | Built in 1646, Maisons-Laffitte castle is the work of the distinguished architect François Mansart. A perfect example of the French classical style of architecture with characteristic decor and main staircase, it comprises the King's apartments, the 17th century mirroded room, the Comte d'Artois' dining room designed by Bélanger, and the bed chambers of Marechal Lannes and Jacques Laffitte.
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 | Built in XVIIth century, The old castle was pulled down in 1764 and a new one was erected and doubled in size at the same place in 1782.
This new castle was pulled down again at the end of XIXth century and the place was forgotten for a while.
It then revived when a 3rd castle was built just nearby in 1849 for duke of Uzés by architects Froelicher and Clément Parent. This new plac... | | 01/15/2006 | 170 |
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 | This is the famous column called "le Monument aux Girondins", located in Bordeaux, France. One of the most famous touristic places of this south-west French city, capital of wine. |  | 01/15/2006 | 155 |
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 | The Italian renaissance-style Château de Ferrières was built between 1855 and 1859 under the aegis of Baron James de Rothschild, in order to exhibit invaluable collections of works of art and to serve as the setting for sumptuous feasts.
It is surrounded by 125-hectare grounds regarded as one of France's finest English-style gardens, where rare species of plant, lawns and water features... | | 01/15/2006 | 170 |
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 | The castle was built in 1883, for M. Bragas, a Parisian banker, in the so-called Néo-Renaissance style, where there was in the past a medieval building.
The castle, owned by the Breteuil family at the end of the 19th century, was rented from 1946 by a dutch association in order to create a permanent education center. The initial aim of the center was to train dutch farmers who wished to ... | | 01/15/2006 | 126 |
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 | Situated 35 km South-West of Paris, between Versailles and Rambouillet, Dampierre Castle is certainly one of the main jewels in the listed Vallée de Chevreuse.
Set deep in the valley ,the present château takes on the exact shape of the landscape. As in Versailles, the transition is adjusted between Nature and Man's work.
This classical chateau was built by Jules Hardouin Mansart f... | | 01/15/2006 | 159 |
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 | The Marais site used to belong to Sully, Henri IV's great counsellor, who lived in the somptuous Hurault mansion castle (only staves and dunjeon still exist nowadays).
The duchess of Talleyrand bought the Marais Chateau in 1899 from the duchess of Noailles. After the German occupation, she has begun to restore the Marais chateau.
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 | About thirty kilometers southern Paris, nested in a magnificent park, stays the castle of Courson-Monteloup.
The castle is perfectly integrated in the park landscape, designed at the origin between the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries by the famous landscape gardener Louis-Martin Berthault, then restyled by the brothers Denys et Eugêne Bühler and finally by Ernest de Caraman during the XXth c... | | 01/15/2006 | 150 |
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 | The Polignac fortress belonged to the biggest family of Velay and one of the most illustrius of France. It was first built in the 11 century. The 32m tower was actually a dungeon built during the 14th century.
Polignac is situated in Auvergne near the town of Le Puy en Velay. | | 01/13/2006 | 133 |
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 | Dating from the 13th century, the château de La Brède became property of Jacques de Secondat de Montesquieu around the end of the 17th century.
Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, also know as Montesquieu, was born in this Castle in 1689.
As of today, the castle has remained property of Montesquieu’s descendants.
The castle is of gothic style and... | | 01/13/2006 | 168 |
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 | Chateaux by departement
Updated 08.03.06: This file doubles the size of the previous 350 Chateaux. It also makes minor corrections and now has data from all of the departments of France. |  | 01/13/2006 | 480 |
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 | These Underground stations are very interest. They consist of two levels. The first level is a traffic circle and the other level is the Underground station. This station is under the traffic circle. In the middle of the traffic circle you can see the station. | | 01/12/2006 | 351 |
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 | The fourth and final Polo Grounds, which the Giants used until they moved to San Francisco after the 1957 season, and which the Mets used until Shea Stadium was completed in 1964, was the most famous, and the one most people mean when they refer to the Polo Grounds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo_Grounds | | 01/11/2006 | 154 |
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 | One of the old gates to enter the city of Brussels | | 01/11/2006 | 129 |
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 | Here you can see the most important sites of Melbourne. Furthermore the 10 tallest buildings of this city are marked. |  | 01/11/2006 | 335 |
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 | The listed as Historical monument is located on an island which was once surrounded by fortifications and only accessible via its two bridges. An ancestor of the owner Nicolas de Vallois d'Escoville acquired the château in 1538. The building still display its proud postern and a perfectly restored 15th century drawbridge facing the remains of the elegant 16th chateau; They are beautiful floral ... | | 01/10/2006 | 146 |
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 | The greatest movie complex of Brussels | | 01/09/2006 | 136 |
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 | Located at 28 km far from Paris in the Hurepoix county, the house overlooks the Salmouille river. This historical estate is opened to visits.
The house, the seven yards and the park frame a near perfect square. The estate was started in 1612 by François Dupoux, one the king’s lawyers. At the end of the 18th century, the estate was bought by Mrs Charron , a general counselor ‘s widow. Sh... | | 01/09/2006 | 166 |
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 | Built in 1631 by the famous architect François Mansart, the château de Balleroy has undergone extensive restoration and refurnishment.
In 1969, Malcolm Forbes fell in love with the Château de Balleroy situated in Normandy, France, and acquired it in 1970. In 1975, a converted stable became the world’s first museum dedicated to ballooning.
In his lifetime, Malcolm Forbes collected ... | | 01/08/2006 | 279 |
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This is a hospital called
Ospedale Tiberina.
It is situated on a little island in the Tiber.
Near the Vatikan border.
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Santa Maria del Popolo is a church in Rome. | | 01/08/2006 | 157 |
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