Château de Farcheville, Bouville, France

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ml 06 (2 years 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 (3 years 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 (3 years 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 (3 years 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 !

Spisskà Kapitula

Spišskà Kapitula, a unique fortified ecclesiastical ensemble, began as a small fortified settlement overlooking Spišské Podhradie in the 12th century. It was the site of the residence of the Provost of the castle, in the no longer extant St Martin"s monastery, and later became a capitulary. This was destroyed in by Tatars in 1241-1243, but the pilgrim"s chapel, in rotunda form and dedicated to the Virgin, survived until the 18th century and the monastery until the 15th century.

The complex of buildings there is based on the Cathedral of St Martin, where building began in 1285 as a three-aisled Romanesque basilica with a chancel at the west end and a double spire. It owes its present form to successive remodellings and additions in the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles.

The Provost's residence was completed in 1281 and further religious buildings were added. Frequent raids by marauding Bulgars and others led to its being fortified in the 14th century. The cathedral was rebuilt in the later 14th century. In 1776 it became the residence of the Bishop and four years later a seminary was established. In 1819 the first teacher training centre in Hungary was founded there.

The Bishop's Palace is largely Baroque, with some excellent interior decorations, like many of the religious buildings in the group. The oval ground plan of the centre of the town is due to its having been fortified in the 14th century. The various religious buildings had defensive functions in this early period. New monastery buildings were erected when the provost"s residence was rebuilt and the whole area fortified. The earlier central fortifications were removed in the 18th century.

Spišské Kapitula is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site Levoča, Spiš Castle and the associated cultural monuments.

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