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Palais Bénédictine

France · 19th century

Founded
c. 1850
Style
Gothic Revival
Architect
Camille Albert
Location
Fécamp
Coordinates
49.7589°, 0.36778°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Palais Bénédictine in France
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Description

The Palais Bénédictine is a building mixing the neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance styles, built at the end of the 19th century in Fécamp for Alexandre-Prosper Le Grand, a spirits merchant who made his fortune by inventing and marketing the liqueur Bénédictine.

The building was constructed to the plans of the architect Camille Albert (1852-1942) by the builder Ernest Baron with local materials and techniques.

The Palais houses the distillery activity and its cellars, as well as a museum presenting various collections (carved ivories, coins, locks, old religious paintings…). An exhibition space, devoted to contemporary art, was created in 1988.

Machine-translated from “Palais Bénédictine” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Palais Bénédictine ranks #5,894 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #511 of the 954 mapped in France. Founded c. 1850, it is older than 8% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 782 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,045 times in the last 60 days, more than 74% of the atlas. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Évreux, 100 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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