Château de Farcheville, Bouville, France

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ml 06 (2 months ago)
After a long drive to visit the place, despite the internet information noted open (not updated) we found the door closed, no one answering the portal or the phone !! very disappointed.

Terri Ramirez (15 months ago)
Very nice rooms in this Bouville cinema store, the seats are comfortable, the sound is useful, the temperature is right (neither too cold nor too hot) and checkout is quick. They offer rate advantages, you can ask them.

Valentine Truchard (16 months ago)
The most perfect place to celebrate a wedding!! We had an absolutely marvelous time for our sister's wedding. The castle of Farcheville is the mostextraordinary place, and has no equivalent in France. It was like being in a fairytale movie! The decoration inside is very elaborate and still it has the warmth of a house, you don't feel like in a museum where you couldn't touch the objects. Here, you really have the ability to live for a few days among beautiful tapestries, paintings, 19th century sofas, 18th century beds and so on! Last but not least, the people of Farcheville are very very careful, smiling, nice and helpful. What a luxury!! In a word, the wedding was beautiful, the place was amazing at all points, and we had a very great weekend around the warm and peaceful swimming pool! Thanks a lot to Mrs Sophie Bouniol for her amazing and precious work during the last months, and in the context of lockdown, but also for her hospitality and kindness. We have no words to say how much Eleonore and Nicolas' wedding was beautiful and fulfilled our hopes

Daphné (16 months ago)
My sister had the wedding of her dreams. It was also an amazing, intense, incredible moment for every single one of us. There is no words to express how more than perfect everything was; The castle is mesmerisingly beautiful, magical, breathtaking ; the decorations, the soul, the space, the furnitures, the CLEANLINESS to the details. I slept in the castle and it was same level as suites in five stars hotels. The team is professional, smiling, dedicated and attentive. They will help you with anything with genuine care. The cleaning ladies and chefs helped me for maintaining the brides bouquet and I thank them again for this kind gesture. Thank you again to the owner of the castle Sophie Bouniol who was present throughout the whole wedding, checked everything to the details and asked us frequently how everything was. She is again professional, smiling, dedicated and hard-working. Thank you, thank you !

Kraków Cloth Hall

The Cloth Hall in Kraków dates to the Renaissance and is one of the city's most recognizable icons. It is the central feature of the main market square in the Kraków Old Town (listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978).

The hall was once a major centre of international trade. Traveling merchants met there to discuss business and to barter. During its golden age in the 15th century, the hall was the source of a variety of exotic imports from the east – spices, silk, leather and wax – while Kraków itself exported textiles, lead, and salt from the Wieliczka Salt Mine.

Kraków was Poland's capital city and was among the largest cities in Europe already from before the time of the Renaissance. However, its decline started with the move of the capital to Warsaw in the very end of the 16th century. The city's decline was hastened by wars and politics leading to the Partitions of Poland at the end of the 18th century. By the time of the architectural restoration proposed for the cloth hall in 1870 under Austrian rule, much of the historic city center was decrepit. A change in political and economic fortunes for the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ushered in a revival due to newly established Legislative Assembly or Sejm of the Land. The successful renovation of the Cloth Hall, based on design by Tomasz Pryliński and supervised by Mayor Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz, Sejm Marshal, was one of the most notable achievements of this period.

The hall has hosted many distinguished guests over the centuries and is still used to entertain monarchs and dignitaries, such as Charles, Prince of Wales and Emperor Akihito of Japan, who was welcomed here in 2002. In the past, balls were held here, most notably after Prince Józef Poniatowski had briefly liberated the city from the Austrians in 1809. Aside from its history and cultural value, the hall still is still used as a center of commerce.

On the upper floor of the hall is the Sukiennice Museum division of the National Museum, Kraków. It holds the largest permanent exhibit of the 19th-century Polish painting and sculpture, in four grand exhibition halls arranged by historical period and the theme extending into an entire artistic epoch. The museum was upgraded in 2010 with new technical equipment, storerooms, service spaces as well as improved thematic layout for the display.

The Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art was a major cultural venue from the moment it opened on October 7, 1879. It features late Baroque, Rococo, and Classicist 18th-century portraits and battle scenes by Polish and foreign pre-Romantics.

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