Château de Germolles

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Castle Facts:

Location: Mellecey, in the Saône-et-Loire departement of France (Bourgogne Region).
Built: 13th century.
Condition: In good condition.
Ownership / Access: Tourist and cultural site.
Opening Times: Check their website for more info.
Price of Admission: Check their website for more info.
ISMH Reference Number: PA00113354
Notes: Château de Germolles, located in the heart of Burgundy, near Beaune and Chalon-sur-Saône, is the best preserved residences of the Dukes of Burgundy. Built in the second half of the fourteenth century, this house testifies to an important page in the region's history. The castle is also one of the rare examples of houses of this type still well preserved in France for the fourteenth century and the first half of the fifteenth century, when most princely palaces from this period have almost entirely disappeared. This remarkable site evokes court life in France at the Renaissance before. Today the castle is widely open to visitors and organizes a cultural October-June season. As historical monuments; The entrance porch is the subject of a classification by order of 12 June 1989; the barn and the floors are subject to registration by order of 12 June 1989. Garden organized by Marguerite of Flanders and the vast rose garden who was the principal ornament there is nothing left today. Replanted in the romantic English style in the late nineteenth century, the park offers a beautiful space planted with old trees, sometimes rare, such a bald cypress, a tulip tree, a ginkgo biloba, an Araucaria or bouquets of lime and cypress trees. Castle Germolles is honored in the broadcast of the program Roots and wings of the September 18, 2013 in France, which has as a subject of Burgundy (Beaune Hospices, the Dukes of Burgundy, the vineyards of Burgundy, Morvan Park, the Canal du Nivernais, Solutré and Pierre de Bourgogne).

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