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Château de Syam

France · 19th century

Founded
1827
Style
Palladian architecture
Heritage status
monument historique inscrit · classified historical monument
Location
Syam
Coordinates
46.70472°, 5.94528°
Links
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Château de Syam in France
Photo: Belgavox · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Château de Syam, located in the village of Syam in the French department of Jura, was built in 1818 by Jean-Emmanuel Jobez regional industrialist and owner of the Forges de Syam, a forge and sheet metal works.

The castle was listed as a Monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture in 1994.

Emmanuel Jobez lived in Paris for ten years where he met Pierre-Adrien Pâris, court architect to Louis XVI and also a native of Jura. Both men embraced Neoclassical architecture and together toured Italy where they visited works designed by Andrea Palladio. They returned impressed by classical architecture and its association with Enlightenment philosophy.

Emmanuel Jobez returned to Syam where he engaged the architect Champennois L'Aîne to build a château largely inspired by Palladio's Villa La Rotonda. Completed c. 1828, the square building is situated on a north–south, east–west axis and organized around a central three-story rotunda. The ground floor of the rotunda is used as a theater and concert hall. Decoration of the house includes polychrome painting, trompe-l'œil murals in the eye of the dome, original wallpapers produced by Xavier Mader for the manufacturer Joseph Dufour et Cie, candelabra and chandeliers by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, and original Empire and Restauration period furniture. The château remained in ownership of Jobez descendants until 2001 when the property was acquired by Brigitte Cannard and Claude Darbon who occupy a portion of the house and offer tours and concerts there.

Text adapted from “Château de Syam” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Château de Syam ranks #6,634 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #595 of the 954 mapped in France. Founded 1827, it is older than 10% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 782 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,100 times in the last 60 days, more than 58% of the atlas. The nearest day-trip guide is Lausanne, 56 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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