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  3. Pays-de-la-Loire
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  5. 44330 Vallet

  6. Castle of the Christmas Bel-Air

 Castle of the Christmas Bel-Air à Vallet en Loire-Atlantique

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine défensif
Demeure seigneuriale
Château de style néo-classique et palladien
Loire-Atlantique

Castle of the Christmas Bel-Air

    La Noé Bel air 
    44330 Vallet
Château de la Noë Bel-Air
Château de la Noë Bel-Air
Château de la Noë Bel-Air
Château de la Noë Bel-Air
Château de la Noë Bel-Air
Château de la Noë Bel-Air
Château de la Noë Bel-Air
Château de la Noë Bel-Air
Château de la Noë Bel-Air
Château de la Noë Bel-Air
Crédit photo : Llann Wé² - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1800
1900
2000
1793
Destruction of the noble house
1823-1826
Construction of communes and orange groves
1835-1837
Reconstruction of the castle
1839
Development of the park
1846
Sculpture of the virgin
1974
Classification of facades and roofs
1998-1999
Registration of Park and Communes
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Façades and roofs of the castle (Box P 1401) : classification by decree of 29 March 1974 - The following elements comprising all the communes of the castle: buildings of the communes, including the orangery, the henhouse, the pigeon house; the great court; the bases of the whole set (cf. HL 40, 42): registration by order of 15 July 1998 - Parc du château located on plots HL 30 to 48, 148, 149, 191 to 195: inscription by order of 20 September 1999

Key figures

Armand de Malestroit de Bruc de Montplaisir - Sponsor Owner having rebuilt the castle.
Louis-Joseph Chaigneau - Architect Author of the castle, pupil of Lemot.
François-Frédéric Lemot - Inspirator Architect Italian and neo-palladian style.
Bosmel - Geometer engineer Manufacturer of the park in 1839.
Grootaërs - Sculptor Author of the virgin (1846).

Origin and history

The Château de la Noë Bel-Air, located in Vallet (Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire), replaces a 17th century noble house destroyed during the Vendée wars. Reconstructed between 1835 and 1837 by the architect Louis-Joseph Chaigneau for Armand de Malestroit de Bruc de Montplaisir, he adopted an italianist style inspired by François-Frédéric Lemot, with a colossal loggia and Tuscan commons (1823-1826). The English park, designed by engineer Bosmel in 1839, includes a pond, an island connected by a wooden bridge, and a stele commemorating royalists shot in 1793.

Ranked a Historic Monument in 1974 (facades and roofs), then registered in 1998 and 1999 (commons, park, orange grove, dovecote), the estate illustrates the influence of the Empire's Nantes architects such as Crucy and Ceineray. Orangery and the commons, organized around a square courtyard, mix bricks and stone according to the Tuscan model. The park, a former rallying point of the Kléber army, also houses a virgin carved by Grootaërs (1846), symbol of post-revolutionary reconstruction.

The ensemble, exceptional in its rustic Italian architecture, reflects the aristocratic revival of the 19th century in Vendée. The castle, surrounded by a wall of round towers, and its star park centered on the loggia, testify to a desire for prestige and memory, between revolutionary heritage and clissonese inspiration. The successive protections highlight its heritage value, combining history, garden art and neo-Palladian architecture.

External links

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