Le château du Touvet (Isère - France)

Описание: (F) Entre Grenoble et Chambéry, le Château du Touvet situé au Touvet (Isère), est bâti dans un site exceptionnel de montagnes.
Propriété privée classée Monument historique, il est habité par la même famille depuis plus de 500 ans.
Le Château et les jardins sont ouverts au public.
Les jardins à la Française conçus par Letellier et Potin sont classés jardins remarquables de France. Créés au XVIIIe siècle et restaurés récemment, jeux d'eau et bassins alternent avec parterres de buis.

(EN) The Château du Touvet is a French castle built in the 13th century, with a garden à la française and a water garden built in the 18th century, located between Grenoble and Chambéry in the Isére Department of the Rhône-Alpes Region of France. The gardens are classified among the notable gardens of France by the French Ministry of Culture.[1] The chateau and gardens are privately owned, but open to the public.
The castle has been in the same family for five hundred years. It was originally built in the 13th century to guard the borders of France against the Dukes of Savoy. In the 18th century, Pierre de Marcieu, the Lieutenant-General and commander in chief of Dauphiné, rebuilt the chateau and built the gardens around it. The water garden was created between 1758-1765.
The 13th century castle has five towers, a moat and a drawbridge. Within the castle is the residence rebuilt in the 18th century, with the original furnishings and paneling.
The 7-hectare garden features a stairway of water, using a hydraulic system built in the 18th century. The garden is made up of a series of terraces, with six parterres of broderies made of boxwood. It also has a small enclosed garden, called the jardin de la comtesse; a kitchen garden, and an alley of linden trees.
Owners of the castle included Guigues Guiffrey, a member of the court of King Francis I, and French Ambassador to the court of Henry VIII; and Nicolas Charles Oudinot, a Marshal of France serving under Napoleon Bonaparte.[2] The castle is currently owned by Bruno and Isabelle de Quinsonas, descendants of the original owners.

(F) http://60gp.ovh.net/~touvet/index.htm
(EN) http://60gp.ovh.net/~touvet/index_uk.htm

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