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The Château du Broutel is an 18th-century château situated in Rue, Hauts-de-France, in northern France.Originally built as the private residence for Jean-Baptiste Loisel Le Gaucher, it is currently owned by Globebrow Ltd and is a multi-activity centre for British children at KS2, 3 and 4.
Originally built in a French château style as a country home. The Chateau has a marble staircase, 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m 2), 63 rooms, 14 fireplaces, [59] and 17 bathrooms, and was known as "Still Pond" until it was purchased by Cargill in 1946. It served as the company's global headquarters until 2017. [60]
Located 15 km from Clermont-Ferrand (15 minutes by car), Pont-du-Château lies at the crossroad of motorways connecting Paris to Barcelona and Lyon to Bordeaux.Pont-du-Château joined the Clermont commune on 1 January 2004.
This list of castles in Normandy is a list of medieval castles or château forts in the regions of Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy in northern France. Links in italics are links to articles in the French Wikipedia.
Château de Clermont, northern aspect The Château de Clermont , built between 1643 and 1649, is located in the commune of Le Cellier , 27 kilometres (17 mi) from Nantes in France . It was owned by the Maupassant family before becoming the property of the actor Louis de Funès .
This list of castles in Alsace is a list of medieval castles or château forts in the region in northern France. Alsace comprises two departments, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin, by the order of which this list is organised.
Unlike its northern Rhône neighbours, Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC permits thirteen different varieties of grape in red wine but the blend must be predominantly grenache. In 2010 there were 320 producers. The total annual production is around 100,000 hectolitres (equivalent to 13 million bottles of 0.75 litre) of which 95% is red.
Chillingham Castle is a medieval castle in the village of Chillingham in the northern part of Northumberland, England.It was the seat of the Grey and Bennet (later Earls of Tankerville) families from the 15th century until the 1980s, when it became the home of Sir Edward Humphry Tyrrell Wakefield, 2nd Baronet, who is married to a member of the original Grey family.