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Château des Ormes

France

Architect
Pierre Meusnier
Heritage status
monument historique inscrit · classified historical monument
Location
Les Ormes
Coordinates
46.9753°, 0.60167°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Château des Ormes in France
Photo: Papy titeuf 10 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Château des Ormes is located on the RN 10 between Tours and Poitiers, in the commune of Les Ormes, on the banks of the Vienne. It was built by the Pussort brothers, uncles of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, from 1642. It was acquired in 1729 by Count Marc-Pierre Voyer d'Argenson, minister of war of Louis XV, friend of Diderot and d'Alembert, who dedicated the Encyclopédie to him. It sheltered famous guests, among them Voltaire.

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

In the rankings

Château des Ormes ranks #7,276 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #692 of the 954 mapped in France. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 921 times in the last 60 days, more than 53% of the atlas. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Tours, 47 km away. It is one of the 87 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Loire Valley. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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