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Château de Tocqueville

France · 16th century

Founded
c. 1600
Heritage status
monument historique inscrit · classified historical monument
Location
Tocqueville
Coordinates
49.6669°, -1.32931°
Links
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Château de Tocqueville in France
Photo: Thierry74 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Château de Tocqueville is a residence of the late 16th century, remodelled several times, which stands in the territory of the French commune of Tocqueville, in the department of Manche, in the Normandy region.

Residence of the Clérel family, lords of Tocqueville, it belonged notably to Alexis de Tocqueville. It is today the property of the Count and Countess de Tocqueville d’Hérouville. The château is partially protected as a historic monument.

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

In the rankings

Château de Tocqueville ranks #7,134 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #669 of the 954 mapped in France. Founded c. 1600, it is older than 31% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 933 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 862 times in the last 60 days, more than 50% of the atlas. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 43 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Normandy. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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