Château d'Esquelbecq, Esquelbecq, France

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Tudor Ghita (9 months ago)
It is very beautiful but is room for improvement.

Lyndhurst (9 months ago)
Visited in the rain. Sublime ambiance. Is it possible to feel the past through architecture and nature? A wall with a plaque dedicated to Lord Kitchener pointed to the possibility of such a thing. Perhaps the brick heart shaped motives in the structures indicated a certain passion in the design. What untold stories are lost to time? A new installation of printed histories and photographs of people connected to the chateau tell unique and wonderful stories of the importance of the chateau and the joy that it brings.

Gill C (10 months ago)
Lovely old chateau with magnificent gardens in centre of village. Chateau only open on Sunday is €10 each, garden open 12.00-6.00pm, €5 each & we worth it. The moated chateau is surrounded by an amazingly well restored formal garden with natural flower beds & shrubs. The history is interesting & it is a haven of peace.

Karen Ocampo (10 months ago)
It was a wonderful place and the people working there, including the landlord were very kind.

Mark Andrews (12 months ago)
Castle not open Thursday or Friday,only weekends. Garden was absolutely amazing but not wheel chair friendly

Wieskirche

The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.

The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.

The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.

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