Château de Chantilly
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Opulent chateau in Chantilly, France rebuilt after the Revolution, with a major art collection, equine museum & gardens.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- château
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Chantilly
- Owned by
- Institut de France
- Movement
- eclectic architecture
- Official website
- www.chateaudechantilly.com
- Image
- Chateau de Chantilly FRA 003.JPG
- Has use
- filming location
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- Commons category
- Château de Chantilly
- occupant
- Condé Museum
- architect
- Honoré Daumet
- architectural style
- eclectic architecture
- Commons gallery
- Château de Chantilly
- date of official opening
- 1882-00-00
- inception
- 1551-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- native label
- Château de Chantilly
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Encyclopedic overview
Château de Chantilly, 2006 The Château de Chantilly ( pronounced [ʃɑto d(ə) ʃɑ̃tiji]) is a historic French château located in the town of Chantilly, Oise, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Paris. The site comprises two attached buildings: the Petit Château, built around 1560 for Anne de Montmorency, and the Grand Château, which was destroyed during the French Revolution and rebuilt in the 1870s. The château is owned by the Institut de France, which received it from Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale.
A historic monument since 1988, it is open to the public. The château's art gallery, the Musée Condé, houses one of France's finest collections of paintings. It specialises in French paintings and book illuminations of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Château de Chantilly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.