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Hardelot Castle

🇫🇷 France · 19th century

Hardelot Castle in France
Photo: JackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Hardelot Castle is a fortified castle situated in the commune of Condette in the Pas-de-Calais (Hauts-de-France region), in France. The present castle is a manor house completed in the middle of the 19th century, on foundations dating from 1222. It has the form of a polygon with nine towers, surrounded by two wide concentric ditches and set on a hill overlooking the marshes and the lac des miroirs. It is close to the seaside resort of Hardelot-Plage, to which it gave its name.

Today it houses the Centre culturel de l'Entente cordiale, devoted to relations between the French and the English, and each summer it hosts the Midsummer Festival. It lies at the centre of the regional nature reserve of the Condette marsh.

Machine-translated from “Château d'Hardelot” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hardelot Castle ranks #3,020 of 7,044 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #233 of the 456 mapped in France. Founded c. 1850, it is older than 8% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 496 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Hardelot Castle?

Hardelot Castle stands in France, at 50.6457°, 1.61148°.

When was Hardelot Castle built?

The atlas dates its founding to c. 1850. Earlier structures may have stood on the site; this is the earliest documented founding year.

How famous is Hardelot Castle?

In this atlas's fame ranking: #3,020 of 7,044 worldwide, and #233 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 Hardelot Castle?

Fort Mahon, about 18 km away.

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