Acquigny

Acquigny

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Acquigny developed at the confluence of two rivers: the Eure, once navigable to Chartres, and Iton diverted from its natural course through a forced arm built in the 12th century by the monks of Conches to power mills. This arm also fed the moat of the castle and protect the Priory Saint evils and the medieval village behind the castle today. The site boasts a remarkable landscape has changed dramatically since the late 19th century. The orchards of cherry and hawthorn, vineyards and sheep pastures of the high hills bordering Eure gave way to shrubs and trees permeate the landscape of high romanticism.

Acquigny, with its church, its houses, its castle and its park, is a town where walking is pleasant.

• Castle:

• Since the Middle Ages the site was fortified to control navigation on the Eure. Heads of Normandy and Franco Franco British during the Hundred Years War the fortress was taken by the armies of Charles 5th in 1364 and razed in 1378.
• The present castle was built from 1557 by Anne de Montmorency Laval, widow of Louis de Silly, cousin of the king and first lady in waiting to Catherine de Medici. She insisted that the architect Philibert de l'Orme and Jacques Androuet Hoop, inspired by his eternal love for her husband build his house using their four initials intertwined. This is the origin of a complex and original construction of rare elegance centered around a turret corner loggia superimposed based on a horn-shaped shell Saint Jacques. This facade of honor was dressed in many decorative elements that celebrate this exceptional love and glory of his family.
• Around 1745 Pierre Robert le Roux Esneval, known as Chairman of Acquigny, had enlarged the castle, bought in 1656 by his great-grandfather Claude le Roux Cambremont, low wings with balusters. The same architect Charles Thibault rebuilt the chapel of Saint ailments and the stables and outbuildings. He also built an orangery, the church and the "little castle" to be attached for a hermitage. The President Acquigny man of great piety, having rebuilt the church, desired to end his life as a hermit, living under the rule of strict observance of the Grande Trappe. From the pavilion end, he could attend the services celebrated in the church. The architecture of this construction is simple, but harmonious. The play of colors - slate blue, red brick, white stone - and symmetry play a major role in beauty and balance that have emerged from this monument.

• The castle park:

• From the vast park of 18th century design with a regular plan of 1784 is presented in the reception area, there remain around the garden, the general outline of lakes perpendicular, but the rows of trees and flowerbeds symmetrical disappeared. However beautiful lime or chestnut powerful who are freed from their geometric beautify wood. Two major elements, the garden and orangery, have regained some of their former glory. In the early 19th century, the network of straight canals was completed by a river meandering path traversed by a bridge and a romantic path of rocks based on a theme dear to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the reveries of a solitary walker. This includes river basins that reflect the large trees and the Castle side of the waterfalls or waterfall. During this walk is the silhouette of the Saint evils, a turn of the 14th century now protecting the Christ of the former cloister of the Priory or a 18th century cottage with its iris and sedum on the roof.
• Located at the end of the current fleet, the garden has the unique characteristic of being simultaneously surrounded by high walls of red bricks baked on the field and canals. These walls topped with a frame supporting a slate roof are beautiful pear along a fence with their impressive 15 or 20 branches. Its restoration began with the walls, roofs, canals and plantations. It continues with the return of flowers.
• Designed for President Acquigny to 1746 by Charles Thibault, the orangery houses since its restoration a collection of citrus, palms and Mediterranean plants. She also serves as a showroom, concert and reception. Its red brick, gray, blue lavender, blue sculptures of Arizona cypress cut in the Italian form an excellent environment for citrus in pots ready for sunny days went to the orangery. Mediterranean plants or hot regions are planted along the frontage: jasmine officinale, pomegranate, passion flower, yellow flower Fremontodendron, jasminoïdes the evergreen vines?
• Designed around 1820, the park landscape was designed to highlight the castle and the site. The alternation of lawns, groves of flowering shrubs, rhododendrons and water bodies is a harmonious landscape. It allows you to find the historical perspective of the Eure Valley originally designed to monitor the river and to guess the Valley Iton. Tree plantations have been particularly successful. In this site heat and water combine to allow development of unusual species: the plane trees of different cultivars reached by 46 meters in height, the Japanese pagoda tree planted at the same time as the Jardin des Plantes in the city of Paris are particularly remarkable as the purple beech, Corsican pine, redwoods, bald cypress, linden wood, chestnut? The diversity of species is renewed for planting: cedars of Lebanon, or the Atlas of the Himalaya, Virginia tulip trees, honey locust America, umbrella pines, mulberry, hackberry, arbutus trees or strawberry?
• Opening of the park and gardens of the castle Acquigny: Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from April 1 to October 29 from 14h to 18h. Every day in July-August from 14h to 19h. Groups by appointment all year. Inquiries +33 2 32 50 23 31.

Renaissance Castle		Garden southern front of the orangery cons church
Cascade		Rocky Road surrounded by tall plane trees
Castle from the park		Details of the turret of the castle Acquigny
Cascade Park's 18th century castle Acquigny		Artificial River Park Castle Acquigny
Platanes reflected in serpentine Games		colors of different trees
purple beech and sycamore Eastern		Mountains of rhododendrons in the undergrowth Castle
Collection of Citrus Park Acquigny Castle		Church, the Orangery, the southern garden
Exceptional Trees		The redwoods
Antler sycamore		Flowers pear

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