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Château Vial

Togo · 20th century

Founded
c. 1940
Location
Kloto
Coordinates
6.95173°, 0.58214°
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Château Vial in Togo
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Description

Château Viale is a chateau in the hills to the north of Kpalimé, in the Kloto Prefecture of Togo.

It was built by a German in the early 1940s and consists of a main building and a tower. The building is owned by the Togolese government and is used for cabinet meetings. It had already been used for meetings during the reign of Gnassingbé Eyadéma. Much to the displeasure of the surrounding population of Kouma-Konda, over whom a curfew was imposed when Eyédama received state guests. In the past presidents such as François Mitterrand, Félix Houphouët-Boigny and Abdou Diouf have stayed at the chateau, as well as the German CDU Chairman Franz Josef Strauss. It underwent renovation in 1979.

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

In the rankings

Château Vial ranks #6,632 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking. Founded c. 1940, one of 161 atlas entries founded in the 20th century. See how Togo compares in the castle statistics.

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