Château de Merville

Merville, France

The Château de Merville was built in 1743 by Henri Auguste de Chalvet, the descendant of Mathieu de Chalvet who had bought in 1575 rights to the land of Merville. The large park of 40 hectares extends around the castle and is listed by Remarkable Gardens of France.

 

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Founded: 1743
Category: Palaces, manors and town halls in France

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Richard Robinson (6 months ago)
A nice Chateau that appears to me to be just holding on. Well worth a visit, reasonably priced admission and I think they need the money. The maze is fun for kids.
Odysseas Papadopoulos (2 years ago)
Really enjoyed the visit, the tour, the restaurant
Adam Macmillan (3 years ago)
Terrible. The maze is a poor excuse for a labyrinth. The tour you are taken on is through porch.. vestibule.. lounge.. 2 bedrooms.. a room with tapestries on all walls and a room with a telescope.. the guide, bless her, seemed to have learnt facts she had to and was obliging in translating what she could. The areas we saw where in rather bad state generally.. you would have thought the family (of which there were pictures of the current children.. I think they all still reside in or near the chateaux) would have made some effort to preserve and mend. It screamed of the Fulford, a uk equivalent of poor aristocrats who can only make moneys from the run down property they inherrited). I wouldn't recommend this place other than tp give the peoples that work there something to so. Waste of money.
David Hodgskin (3 years ago)
Lovely grounds, small restaurant with all you require, very nice original château
Ivan “HiP” Phan (4 years ago)
Beautiful XVIII century castle with XVI century tapestry.
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