Château de Beaulon
Encyclopedia
The Chateau de Beaulon is a privately-owned castle located in the town of Saint Dizant du Gua, in the Poitou-Charentes
Department of France. The chateau and garden are open to the public. The garden is listed by the Committee of Parks and Gardens of the French Ministry of Culture as one of the Remarkable Gardens of France.
. The present gardens were created beginning in 1942. The gardens suffered major damage from the storm of 1999, which knocked down hundreds of trees, but it has since been restored and replanted.
and a renaissance
facade. The park includes a French formal garden around the chateau, and an English landscape garden. A major feature of the park are the Fontaines Bleues, natural springs whose waters are an unusual color of blue. It also has a round dovecote with a conical roof, dating from 1740, with fifteen hundred nesting holes.
Poitou-Charentes
Poitou-Charentes is an administrative region in central western France comprising four departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. The regional capital is Poitiers.-Politics:The regional council is composed of 56 members...
Department of France. The chateau and garden are open to the public. The garden is listed by the Committee of Parks and Gardens of the French Ministry of Culture as one of the Remarkable Gardens of France.
History
The chateau was built in about 1480 as a residence for the Bishops of BordeauxBordeaux
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...
. The present gardens were created beginning in 1942. The gardens suffered major damage from the storm of 1999, which knocked down hundreds of trees, but it has since been restored and replanted.
Description
The chateau has both a gothicGothic
-Germanic people:*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Goths**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths...
and a renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
facade. The park includes a French formal garden around the chateau, and an English landscape garden. A major feature of the park are the Fontaines Bleues, natural springs whose waters are an unusual color of blue. It also has a round dovecote with a conical roof, dating from 1740, with fifteen hundred nesting holes.