Castle
Château du Marais
🇫🇷 France
The Château du Marais is a French castle situated in the commune of Val-Saint-Germain, near Saint-Chéron, in the former province of Hurepoix, today in the department of Essonne, thirty-six kilometres south-west of Paris.
Built by the architect Jean-Benoît-Vincent Barré for Jean Le Maître de La Martinière, treasurer general of the Artillery and the Engineers, it is considered one of the most remarkable examples of a Louis XVI-style château in the Paris region.
It belonged successively to the Noailles, Castellane, Talleyrand-Périgord, Pourtalès and Frotier de Bagneux families. It was bought by Daniel Křetínský in June 2022.
Machine-translated from “Château du Marais” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château du Marais ranks #3,472 of 7,044 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #272 of the 456 mapped in France. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Château du Marais?
Château du Marais stands in France, at 48.5733°, 2.10224°.
How famous is Château du Marais?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #3,472 of 7,044 worldwide, and #272 in France. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Château du Marais?
Château de Dourdan, about 8 km away.
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