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Founded: 19th centuryCategory: Industrial sites in Sweden
Historical period: Union with Norway and Modernization (Sweden)
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Pershyttan is a small mining town which has been restored and kept mainly as a working museum of Bergslagen's mining and iron handling which started in the early 14th century. One of Sweden's best preserved charcoal-fuelled blast furnaces from 1856 can be found in Pershyttan. In the area is there is also one of the biggest working water wheels.
References:The Château du Lude is one of the many great châteaux of the Loire Valley in France. Le Lude is the most northerly château of the Loire Valley and one of the last important historic castles in France, still inhabited by the same family for the last 260 years. The château is testimony to four centuries of French architecture, as a stronghold transformed into an elegant house during the Renaissance and the 18th century. The monument is located in the valley of Le Loir. Its gardens have evolved throughout the centuries.
