Château de Méry

Méry-sur-Oise, France

Francois Mathieu Mole (1705-1793), Chairman of the Parliament of Paris, did redesign the Renaissance castle and replant the park, it's said that it was on the advice of the naturalist Georges-Louis Buffon (1707-1788). Looted during the Revolution, the gardens were redesigned in 1846 by Louis Varé Sulpice (1808-1883). Now owned by the town, the castle park, covering an area of twenty-seven hectares, offers the public its majestic spaces deployed around large ornamental ponds. Recently renovated, the botanical garden experiment, created by landscape architect Pascal Cribier in 1999 around the water cycle, is open to the public.

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Rue de l'Isle Adam 11, Méry-sur-Oise, France
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Founded: 16th century
Category: Castles and fortifications in France

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www.chateaudemery.fr

Rating

4.5/5 (based on Google user reviews)

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Notre Dame de Paris (26,4 km)
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Place de la Concorde (24,3 km)

User Reviews

Parikshit Kohli (3 years ago)
Great food and wine with lots of history and serene surroundings...a place to unwind and relax
Claire Vickers (3 years ago)
Fantastic hotel with fantastic staff
Erasmus Chauke (3 years ago)
Good place to relax or team breakaways.
marco Gil (3 years ago)
One beautiful place. Nice idea for enterprises meetings. Very nice staff!
Michael (3 years ago)
Good place, good food but the hotel architect was an idiot so there is no cell phone coverage and wifi is spotty. Which is ok if you're a monk I guess but not ok if you are travelling on business.
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