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inside the castle the castle

pland'ensemble (drawing Claudine Passicos)

photos Landes General Council

The great stone staircase (stone Bidache) of the central pavilion, arched ramp on ramp and solid wall, not decorative, has 99 steps of 2.61 meters width. At each level, access to the main building is through doors with pilasters and entablature surmounted by molded cornices or pediments on the ground floor.

At the bottom of the main building east lies a large room and severe Romanesque vault. On the ground floor, above this room is a large reception room of 15.70 meters long and 7.58 meters wide. At a height of 4.40 meters is illuminated by six huge windows. Is the flag is largely occupied by a salon called "Golden Room" featuring panels of Louis XIII, carved wooden fireplace, French ceiling, parquet floor, only the remains of the development of the seventeenth century. The rest of the pavilion is a room occupied by Louis XVI to woodwork.

The stories take up the very simple plan and volumes of the ground floor, Included are French ceilings and a set of chimneys Louis XIII and Louis XIV. A chimney located in the attic seems to be earlier and might prove the existence of the original castle.
The west wing of the castle is planning more recent and has three levels serving nine pieces in the style of the eighteenth century.
The main building is a vaulted basement barrel low profile, largely informed the North where it is single storey and was intended to be a sommelier. The two floors will each included only one large room at of the roof, a corridor to the south served two bedrooms and an anti-chamber to the north.
The various assignments of the building have changed the provisions anciennes.En persist however many elements of the latest developments made in the eighteenth century woodwork in the large dining room, main building of apartments and chalet West. It is also important this time a series of chimneys.

the floors are kept a few stacks of stone, decorated with moldings simple geometric array of stone shot at the corners with rosettes, pilasters pediment and fluted circular or consoles. The room's main building is a modern chapel became only the current vestry, located on the ground floor of the adjacent pavilion, kept part of the decor of the seventeenth century. On the beams, medallions treated in monochrome red, with busts or mythological scenes, supported by mermaids and mermen golden. Large wood fireplace two caryatids sheathed around a table is a simple representation of the castle, a mask surrounded by garlands, angels' heads with waterfalls surround the home. The top-of-doors are painted landscapes in the window openings grounds Loves climbing branches suspended from a ring appears later.

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