Architectural wandering

Name: Déambulation architecturale
Start: 2023-09-16T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée national et domaine du château de Pau

Visit with two voices, outdoors

Samedi 16 septembre 2023, 14h30, 16h00Passé

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Visit with two voices, outdoors

Commented visits on the history of the construction of the castle with the Architect of the buildings of France of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques and the head of the service works of the castle of Pau: use of the monument, know-how and trades, materials…

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

Thèmes 2023

Patrimoine vivant

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

À propos du lieu

Musée national et domaine du château de Pau

Rue du château, 64000 Pau

Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Built in the XIIIth century by the viscounts of Béarn, the castle of Pau is extended in 1370s by legendary Gaston Fébus, count of Foix and viscount of Béarn (1343-1391). In the first half of the XVIth century, Henry d' Albret and her wife, Margaret d' Angoulême, sister of François Ier, give him the decoration(set) Renaissance which saw being born, in 1553, the one who will become Henry IV, " the good king Henry ".
In the XIXth century, Louis-Philippe, then Napoleon III proceed to a complete restoration(catering) and to a refitting(reorganisation) of the royal apartments. Of this time(period), the castle kept(preserved) undamaged its internal decoration(set), of style Troubadour and neo-Renaissance, as well as exceptional all the most prestigious tapestries of Flanderses and of the Gobelins des XVIe, XVIIth century and the XVIII centuries.