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Château de Kernévez

France

Heritage status
monument historique inscrit
Location
Saint-Pol-de-Léon
Coordinates
48.6778°, -3.97473°
Links
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Château de Kernévez in France
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Description

Kernévez is a château in a mainly neoclassical style, at the entrance to the town of Saint-Pol-de-Léon (Finistère), in Brittany. The Château de Kernévez was built shortly after 1850 for the de Guébriant family on the site of the Château de La Villeneuve. The 37-hectare landscape park which surrounds it and which descends to the sea was designed by the landscape gardener brothers Denis and Eugène Bühler in the middle of the 19th century. The recourse to Parisian designers reflects the break with the local architectural tradition. The site was listed in 1973 and the park, the work of Denis and Eugène Bühler, has been registered as a historic monument since 1997, as have the château and the ancillary buildings (outbuildings). It has, besides a great variety of trees, a rose garden, the remains of the chapel of Kerliviry, stables in granite rubble, a pond, and a dolmen of schist slabs.

Machine-translated from “Château de Kernévez” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Château de Kernévez ranks #8,480 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #874 of the 954 mapped in France. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Brest (France), 49 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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