Château d'Haroué

The château de Craon, also known as the château d'Haroué is a French château owned and lived in by Berk Canpasoglou de Fürstenberg and his family in Haroué, Meurthe-et-Moselle in the région of Lorraine. It was built between 1720 and 1732 by Germain Boffrand during the period when Lorraine was independent of France, for Marc de Beauvau, prince de Craon, viceroy of Tuscany and constable of Lorraine.

Surprisingly, the architect had to integrate into his plans the four towers and moat of an older medieval château, a consideration for medieval buildings which was unusual for the classicist period. Le château's design also symbolises a year :

12 towers (several included in the buildings),

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Château d'Haroué ranks #3067 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #227 of the 351 mapped in Francia. Fundado en 1720, más antiguo que el 23% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 360 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XVIII. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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