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CHATEAU WITH SUMPTUOUS RENAISSANCE AND 18TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE 60KM FROM PARIS - One of the most beautiful gardens in the Ile de France - Superb settings - Gallery - 26 hectares, listed as a historic monument, Vexin, Val d'Oise, Ile-de-France. 60km from Paris in a beautiful, unspoiled valley in the verdant Vexin, this Renaissance château, built around 1540 and extended around 1710 and 1780, is nestled in a magical setting of Italian-style gardens, among the most beautiful around Paris. On the main courtyard, the 1540 Renaissance façade is adorned with a rich decor of pilasters, capitals, and friezes of foliage scrolls, making it one of the finest examples of Renaissance architecture in private hands. A grand staircase leads to the château's great hall. On the right, the medieval keep with two watchtowers has been preserved and also adorned with Renaissance decor. To the west, the extraordinary gardens inspired by the Villa Gambéraïa in Tuscany, among the most beautiful in France, are revealed on three Renaissance terraces by a play of perspectives of boxwood, yews trimmed in topiary, linden avenues, running water features. The secret garden with its statue of Neptune, its four squares of white and black tulips. The greenhouse garden and its 24 squares of tree peonies, hellebores, "Black Parrot" tulips. The Moon Garden, wonderfully composed after that of the Gambéraïa, is inspired by the early 16th century painting by Mantegna "Vices and Virtues" preserved in the Louvre. The architecture is made by nature, the portico is made of yew, the half-moon is made of water. A waterfall crosses the garden from north to south. The sun garden on the upper terrace is composed of a chessboard, blooming in spring with 40,000 daffodils and clipped yew pawns. To the south, a superb classical façade built around 1710, of great architectural quality, presents five arcades on the ground floor framing the steps of the Renaissance gallery opening onto the park. The large pediment is decorated with a Rocaille cartouche. The interior is divided between sumptuous Renaissance volumes and high-quality 18th-century decorations. This residence testifies inside to the splendors of the Renaissance with two salons with vast fireplaces, one of which has a remarkable sculpted ceiling, a large Renaissance gallery, a Renaissance staircase ramp upon ramp, vaulted in a semicircular arch, adorned with moldings and pilasters. The refinement of the 18th century is displayed in the particularly open, bright, and theatrical stair hall, with a floor of cabochons, and a wrought iron banister of great elegance. A small living room, a dining room decorated with woodwork, a spectacular library office open on two floors with a balustraded skylight. A library. A small dining room. On the second floor, 7 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3 toilets, a large 100m2 living room decorated with a marble fireplace. In the bedrooms several very beautiful decorative elements, woodwork, alcove, 18th century marble and limestone fireplaces. On the third floor, a beautiful southwest bedroom, toilet, bathroom, vast attics. Two spiral staircases. A caretaker's accommodation on the garden level restored in 2023-2024, 100m2, 2 bedrooms, living room, entrance hall, bathroom. Large outbuildings, barns, monumental press, footbath. 5 accesses. Septic tanks. Developed surface approximately 2300m2 Oil central heating Town water. Source by gravity. 26 hectares of a block and free in total, including 4 hectares of walled gardens. EBTS label; 2015 Grand Prix for gardens. Historic monument protection: The castle, excluding the listed parts: registration by decree of June 4, 1926 - The facades and roofs: classification by decree of June 20, 1945 - The castle park, including the built parts and the surrounding walls and with the exception of the statuary, as well as the facades and roofs of the outbuildings and the two original elements removed from the castle turret (see plan annexed to the decree) (cad. B 1676, 640, 643): registration by decree of December 13, 2006 OPTIONAL: A beautiful 18th century farm restored in 2023 of approximately 500m2, 5 bedrooms, large kitchen opening onto nature and the indoor swimming pool. New swimming pool. 8000m2 free. (Price: 790,000 Euros including tax, 4.76% of which is payable by the buyer; option only available in addition to the castle). Price: 4,460,000 Euros including agency fees (4.76% of which is payable by the buyer). Information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisques website: www.georisques.gouv.fr
