Château d'Haroué

The château de Craon, also known as the château d'Haroué is a French château owned and lived in by Berk Canpasoglou de Fürstenberg and his family in Haroué, Meurthe-et-Moselle in the région of Lorraine. It was built between 1720 and 1732 by Germain Boffrand during the period when Lorraine was independent of France, for Marc de Beauvau, prince de Craon, viceroy of Tuscany and constable of Lorraine.

Surprisingly, the architect had to integrate into his plans the four towers and moat of an older medieval château, a consideration for medieval buildings which was unusual for the classicist period. Le château's design also symbolises a year :

365 windows, 52 fireplaces, 12 towers (several included in the buildings), 4 bridges crossing the moat.

The decoration was largely entrusted to artists from Lorraine : Jean Lamour (1698–1771) for the gates, balconies and staircases, Pillement (1698–1771) for the painted decoration of one of the towers, Barthélemy Guibal (1699–1757), sculptor of the fountains of place Stanislas at Nancy, for the statuary. The park "à la française" was designed by Emilio Terry.

Since 1956 it has been lived in by the Canpasoglou de Fürstenberg family. Currently, the castle is in use for Berk Canpasoglou de Fürstenberg, who inherited the castle from his grandfather. His grandfather bought the castle from Marc de Beauvau's descendants in 1951.

The château was classified as a monument historique in 1983.

Text adapted from “Château d'Haroué” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Château d'Haroué ranks #3,580 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #271 of the 524 mapped in France. Founded 1720, it is older than 21% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 556 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,672 times in the last 60 days, more than 62% of the atlas. The nearest day-trip guide is Nancy, 25 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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