Last updated on 22 June 11
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Chateau de Balleroy

2.0/5 (1 ratings)

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The chateau and garden were designed by Francois Mansart in 1626. Mansart included a plan for a village in his design. There is a seventeenth century dovecote. Kenneth Woodbridge wrote that 'Offices and other buildings are strung out along the forecourt. These culminate in a courtyard before the house, with terraces on either side flanked by pavilions. The garden proper has long been turned into a park'. Andre le Notre drew a plan of the garden. Balleroy was purchased by Malcolm Forbes in 1970 for Forbes Inc. He was a ballooning enthusiast and established the world's first balloon museum in a converted stable at Balleroy in 1975.

Address - Forbes Management Co. Inc., Chateau de Balleroy - Musée des Ballons, B.P. 3, Balleroy, France, F - 14490
Website - Visit the Chateau de Balleroy website

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Recent Reviews

8 months ago Isla said
I got very excited when we went past this chateau after taking a wrong turn and we looked it up in the guide book, it mentions that the gardens are by the same designer as Versailles, what the book didn't mention is that all the back gardens were destroyed in the Revolution and only the front remain. The house is surrounded by now parkland but not a Versailles style garden.

It's quite expensive to get it, the English tour of the house was in very bad English and the guide couldn't answer any questions that weren't on the script and the Balloon museum wasn't up to very much. To be honest - there are a lot of better ways to spend your 9 Euros.

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